Re: Collaborative effort on a User's Guide

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 13:22:24 MET


Hi Damir, 

I'm very pleased that a ROOT User Guide is in the works. It sounds
very promesing. 

On a the format: I suggest you use some format that is well-defined
(i.e., _not_ Word), like say: LaTeX2e, SGML, or RTF. I recommend the
LaTeX, ofcourse. Ofcourse, using SGML, it would be trivial to convert
into other formats. Good examples of a coherent format convention is
the LDP (Linux Documentation Project - www.linuxdoc.org) or Debian
GNU/Linux' Documentation project (www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/).  The
first uses LaTeX, the second uses SGML. 

On Unix Man pages: I've already compiled some information from a lot
of the web-pages and docs of ROOT into a set of Unix manpages. They
are part of my Debian GNU/Linux package of ROOT. You can a tarball of
these man pages from 
      
      www.fys.ku.dk/~cholm/pub/root-unixman.tar.gz 

Please notice, that this site is somewhat unstable, so if you don't
get first time around, keep trying.  

Thanks, and keep up the good work, 

Christian  -----------------------------------------------------------
Holm Christensen                             Phone:  (+45) 35 35 96 91 
  Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th.                  Office: (+45) 353  25 305 
  DK-2200 Copenhagen N                       Web:    www.nbi.dk/~cholm    
  Denmark                                    Email:       cholm@nbi.dk



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