"John Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I would like to contribute some documentation to Python. > I've got the time, I write quite a bit, etc. I've got fairly > strong opinions about some things that need to be documented, > (such as all the new style class descriptor stuff from 2.2) > and I have relatively little difficulty matching the existing style.
I would love to see the written better and in the manuals. > However, I don't > know TEX, Latex, CVS or Sourceforge. (The latter two are > on my "learn sometime soon so I can put PyFIT where it belongs" > list.) Neither do I. > I have no desire to install Perl to run the documentation toolchain. > I also have no particular desire to write up a bunch of final > format stuff and drop it on someone else to put into the latex > format so it can be included. Why not? If someone is willing to do the part that is easier for him (format pre-written ascii text), why aren't you willing to do the part that is easier for you (write the text)? I am asking as someone who has done just that, at least on a micro scale of occasional sentences in response to bug reports. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
