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

[Mazen Harake]

But there is no anchor to each function on a module page; which is what 
I want.

/Mazen

Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
> The one the link leads to. There is a search box on the top left.
>
> Zoltan.
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>> What page are you looking at?
>>
>> /Mazen
>>
>> Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 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:
>>>>
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>>>>> 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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