[erlang-questions] Erlang documentation cleanup (PREV: R13B01 modules, quick reference)

[Mazen Harake]

What page are you looking at?

/Mazen

Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
> You can give the search engine at gotapi a try
> (http://www.gotapi.com/erlang). It needs some fixes, but probably will do
> what you want.
>
> Anchors already exist in the documentation, in the non-xhtml style (<a
> name="anchor" />) .
>
> Regards,
> Zoltan.
>
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>> 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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