Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > Hi Phil, > thanks for your thoughts! > > 2012/9/18 Phil Steitz : > > On 9/18/12 6:47 AM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: > >> Hi Gilles, > >> > >>> As you both point out indirectly, the Javadoc system is not exactly > >>> suitable > >>> to compose a scientific document. But I remind that its m

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi Phil, thanks for your thoughts! 2012/9/18 Phil Steitz : > On 9/18/12 6:47 AM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: >> Hi Gilles, >> >>> As you both point out indirectly, the Javadoc system is not exactly suitable >>> to compose a scientific document. But I remind that its main goal is to >>> explain the AP

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Steitz
On 9/18/12 6:47 AM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: > Hi Gilles, > >> As you both point out indirectly, the Javadoc system is not exactly suitable >> to compose a scientific document. But I remind that its main goal is to >> explain the API of a code, not to explain the science that supports the >> implem

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi Luc. > > [...] > >> > >>So at least we have to think a little about it. > >> > >Another option would be this: since maven-site works with strict > >xhtml > >(unlike javadoc), we can embed MathML code in our pages. I'm not sure > >how we would do it in xdoc or apt, but we can certainly write our

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi Gilles, > > As you both point out indirectly, the Javadoc system is not exactly suitable > to compose a scientific document. But I remind that its main goal is to > explain the API of a code, not to explain the science that supports the > implementation. > As a matter of fact, I was talking abo

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Ralph Goers
I did the whole Flume web site in Sphinx - http://flume.apache.org. It works great for documentation but isn't really designed to build a web site - although you can. The Maven plugin has a few gotchas at the moment: 1 - it has a bug that causes it to use a lot of memory on multi-module bu

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi Luc, 2012/9/18 luc : > Le 2012-09-18 07:46, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : >> >> Hi, > > > Hi Sébastien, > >> >> 2012/9/18 Sébastien Brisard : >>> >>> Hi, >>> thanks for these answers. >>> I agree that apt does not seem much better than xdoc, but it at least >>> offers table formatting and so on.

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-18 Thread luc
Le 2012-09-18 07:46, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : Hi, Hi Sébastien, 2012/9/18 Sébastien Brisard : Hi, thanks for these answers. I agree that apt does not seem much better than xdoc, but it at least offers table formatting and so on. So can anyone recommend a good format? Otherwise, I'm qui

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-17 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi, 2012/9/18 Sébastien Brisard : > Hi, > thanks for these answers. > I agree that apt does not seem much better than xdoc, but it at least > offers table formatting and so on. > So can anyone recommend a good format? Otherwise, I'm quite happy with xhtml. > > An option I'm going to look at at wor

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-17 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi, thanks for these answers. I agree that apt does not seem much better than xdoc, but it at least offers table formatting and so on. So can anyone recommend a good format? Otherwise, I'm quite happy with xhtml. An option I'm going to look at at work is sphinx [1]. It has become widely spread in

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-17 Thread sebb
On 17 September 2012 22:28, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Le 17/09/2012 21:24, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : >> Hi, > > Hi Sébastien, > >> I'm looking into extending the user's guide of Commons-Math for >> special functions. xdoc seems to be offering only very crude >> formatting possibiliities, and apt se

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-17 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 17/09/2012 21:24, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : > Hi, Hi Sébastien, > I'm looking into extending the user's guide of Commons-Math for > special functions. xdoc seems to be offering only very crude > formatting possibiliities, and apt seems much better. It should work > out of the box, alongside

Re: [all] xdoc vs. apt

2012-09-17 Thread Dennis Lundberg
On 2012-09-17 21:24, Sébastien Brisard wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking into extending the user's guide of Commons-Math for > special functions. xdoc seems to be offering only very crude > formatting possibiliities, and apt seems much better. It should work > out of the box, alongside with existing xdoc