Re: [Csnd-dev] Manual for Csound 7

This looks great!

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM Francois PINOT <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear devs,
>
> Joachim, Menno and I are working on a new platform for the manual for
> Csound 7. We're using mkdocs-material which is based on markdown, a
> technology simpler and more recent than docbook. It produces
> beautiful pages.
>
> The transformation from xml to markdown is a bit tedious. I tried
> different tools available on the web, but the results were not convincing.
> I finally wrote a program to transform one notice from xml to markdown: it
> works fine on nearly all files: for each file it takes me about 2mn to
> transform it, verify the result and eventually do some hand adjustment. I
> wrote another program to cleanly replace the tabulations by spaces in the
> csd files.
>
> After three weeks, I've transformed about 65% of the manual. You can see
> the result here: https://joachimheintz.github.io/CS7_Manual/
>
> If everyone agrees, we'd like to move this repository from Joachim's
> github to the csound github even if it's not complete so that people can
> begin to add notices for Csound 7. We can add it as a new branch to the
> actual manual repo, protecting the other branches against writing, so that
> this new branch becomes the official develop branch of the manual with its
> own CI action. Of course, we'll provide guidelines to help people writing
> new notices.
>
> Comments and advice are welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> François
>
>