Erlang documentation cleanup (PREV: R13B01 modules, quick reference)

[Mazen Harake]

This brings up a subject I've been meaning to bring up for a while. The 
online documentation needs modernisation... A few things that come to 
mind are:

* Proper documentation search (please don't insult this by saying 
Google... that's just stupid)
* Function overview in each module
* Module summary on the modules page (and categorized) much like 
http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/index.html
* Add anchors to the HTML so that a link can go straight to a function
* Make HTML XHTML
* More visually appealing. Probably this won't go very well with 
old-timers but frankly I have spoken to beginners in Erlang that say 
that when looking at the documentation it looks like something created 
20 years ago and it doesn't look very... well... "appealing". The fact 
they are right about the age is not the point now is it ;) ?

Probably many more issues exist.... just saying.

/Mazen


Dave Pawson wrote:
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/erlang/qr.txt
>
> I did it for my own reference.
> I use this, then open an appropriate
> http://erlang.org/doc/man_index.html  page
> for details.
>
> Feedback appreciated.
>
> regards
>
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