[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Documentation Release

[Alexander Staubo]

Great work. I wish you could fix the HTML documentation packaging,
though.

I remember a while back when you could still get the DTML Guide as a
single, flat HTML file (plus the images). The formatting stunk then, but
at least you could easily browse the documentation. The formatting of
the DTML and SQL guides remains pretty ghastly. In future releases,
please include the option of viewing/downloading a single, flat HTML
file, preferably with numbered sections (eg., "6.1. Iterative
Insertion").

The table of contents produced by Frame Maker is so bad I'm surprised
you haven't fixed it by hand. For example, in the case of the ZAG it
starts of confidently, until "ZServer Command Line Switches", where it
falls apart, adding paragraphs between each entry and forgetting to add
a bullet. And when it's doen with all that, it says "Figure 1. CGI
Overview" in huge letters and then starts off on a new table contents,
nicely ordered but with the exact same contents. This is also the first
table of contents on the web I've seen that includes page numbers.

-- 
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pam Crosby [mailto:pam@digicool.com]
> Sent: 1. oktober 1999 23:42
> To: 'zope@zope.org'; 'ZDP@zope.org'
> Subject: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: Documentation Release
> 
> 
> Digital Creations is proud to announce the availability of several
> updated Zope Documentation guides.  
> 
> *  The much awaited Z Class Tutorial is now the first chapter of the
> Zope Developer's Guide.
>    http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Developer/
>    More chapters will be forth coming!
> 
> 
> *  The Zope Administrator's Guide
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZAG_doc , in draft mode, is
> also online.  This guide covers Zope's installation and maintenance
> issues.
> 
> *  The original guides are undergoing a metamorphous as we provide a
> more comprehensive Zope documentation effort.  The Zope Content
> Manager's Guide, DTML Reference and ZSQL Guide have been modified to
> reflect the newest Zope 2 version.  The new DTML syntax is 
> incorporated
> into these guides.  Similar reference guides and tutorials 
> will follow.
> These guides are located on the main documentation page.
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation  
> 
>   
> 
> Pamela Crosby
> 
> Technical Writer                           mailto:pam@digicool.com
> Digital Creations                           http://www.digicool.com
> 
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