2009/1/3 mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>:
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> On Jan 3, 10:00 am, "John Cremona" <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/1/3 mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>:
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>> > On Jan 3, 9:34 am, "John Cremona" <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi John,
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>> >> A different but related point:  where is it decided which source files
>> >> are converted into documentation and which are not?  For example, in
>> >> the hyperelliptic curves section there are several files with almost
>> >> nothing in them;  while in the elliptic curves section there's nothing
>> >> from files ell_point.py and weierstrass_morphism.py (and maybe
>> >> others).
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>> >> John
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>> > In the old documentation this was controlled via devel/doc/ref/files,
>> > I am not sure how this is controlled in the new documentation. One
>> > aspect of this review is certainly to get more of the files in Sage
>> > into the documentation, i.e. so far neither the Species code nor the
>> > SageWords library is in 3.2.3's ref manual. But they are in 3.3, so if
>> > you see some files with nice docstrings that is not in the ref manual
>> > please open a ticket to get them in.
>>
>> I have done so (#4933), as there 16 files in
>> sage.schemes.elliptic_curves which are missing!
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> Thanks for doing this. If anybody else notices similar issues please
> also open a ticket.
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>> The sickening thing is that this was not done before, since these 16
>> files have escaped the conversion to Sphinx.  I had wrongly assumed
>> that the change to REST had been carried out on every source file, but
>> not so...
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> Well, so far only the files in the documentation have been converted,
> but I am sure those additional files will also be converted by Mike
> once the big rush for 3.3 is over. He did mention at some point that
> maybe 50 or so files are unconverted at this point, but that number
> might be wrong due to my bad recollection. Either way, the switch to
> ReST will flush out all kinds of issues like this and also will make
> people look at files that just have been sitting there for a while. In
> the end it is a good thing, even though it introduces short term pain.

Yes, definitely!

Perhaps we could have a doc-day devoted to converting remaining files:
 using Mike's script + manuall/viual checking afterwards.

John

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>> John
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> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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