From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 31 13:13:20 2006
Subject: Re: Octave web pages
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:05:00 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>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.
>  
>

I have a little CSS experience and was recently thinking about proposing 
an update to the Octave web pages using CSS. Like Bill, I don't have a 
lot of time, but I could definitely share this responsibility with 
others who are interested.

-Quentin