[Openmcl-devel] ccl manual (was Re: trace on recursive functions)

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 10 Dec 2009, at 19:11, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:

> To misuse a chemistry term, the activation energy required to create  
> or edit is wiki page is much lower than that for editing the manual.
>
> The manual is in DocBook, and it is rather painful to edit (at least  
> for me it is).  Emacs's nXML mode keeps me from producing invalid  
> structure, but still, DocBook is big and complicated.
>
> With the wiki, it's easy to just throw something up there.   
> Eventually, important stuff on the wiki makes it back into the  
> manual, or ought to.  TRACE is one example that made the jump.  Just  
> looking now, I see that the documentation on HEAP-UTILIZATION is  
> another candidate that should make the leap to the manual.

Is there any way to make the wiki *be* the manual? I don't know enough  
about the specific wiki here, but I'm thinking of some approach where  
you construct some kind of view of a lot of wiki pages which  
essentially is the manual (obviously this would not be "all pages" it  
would be some subset).  That's probably a bit less powerful than using  
some dedicated system like DocBook but it means there is a single  
source of information, and it's easier to update as well.