From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 31 12:59:26 2006
Subject: Re: Octave web pages
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:59:14 -0500

On 31-Jan-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| I don't think that I'll be able to take it over full time, but I could 
| definitely help.

Thanks.

Given that the pages have remained essentially unchanged for the last
N years, they don't really *require* a lot of work, but it would be
nice if someone could help to update them with news and info
periodically.

Currently, they are generated from some templates using a home-brew
set of M4 macros.  I chose this solution so that the pages could have
a consistent appearance that could also be easily modified (this was
done before CSS).

If we move them to savannah, then we will need to convert to HTML
only -- the pages that are checked in to CVS can only be HTML.  So I
think the first thing would probably be to generate some clean
HTML+CSS from the current pages. I can help with that, but if you are
a CSS wizard, then you may be able to help me more than I can help
you.

jwe