From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-10-06T23:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: The Making of Copland's User Manual

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 11:19:26 PM, Jamis wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Is the process you used described somewhere that all can benefit
>>>from?
> 
> 
>>For my Copland manual, I took a page (quite literally) from _why's book.
>>The "Poignant Guide" uses a ruby script to process a YAML document, 
>>turning it into a lovely, attractive suite of HTML pages. I lifted 
>>_why's ruby script and erb templates, tweaked them a bit, and dropped
>>them into my Copland project.
> 
> 
>>The process is something like this:
> 
> 
> [snip process]
> 
> Thanks Jamis.  I'm most interested in this, too, having spent far too
> much time today trying to massage a messy collection of Textile documents
> into a cohesive unit.  Phew!!
> 
> Gavin

Really, all thanks should go to _why. I didn't add anything original 
beyond what _why already had done.

As usual, he's bushwhacking new territory in the unmapped interior of 
Ruby Possibilities.

Thanks, _why!

- Jamis

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