Re: How to change the directory for the docs?
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- Subject: [mg115400] Re: How to change the directory for the docs?
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:37:11 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 7, 3:07 am, kj <no.em... at please.post> wrote: > In <ifuorh$cb... at smc.vnet.net> telefunkenvf14 <rgo... at gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > > >On Jan 3, 2:57 am, kj <no.em... at please.post> wrote: > >> In <ifpk99$bs... at smc.vnet.net> David Bailey <d... at removedbailey.co.uk>= writes: > > >> >It might help to explain why you want to do this. There is probably a= n > >> >easier way to achieve whatever it is you want to do. > > >> Well, if you want to know, I've copied all the Mathematica > >> documentation notebooks to a personal directory, so that I can > >> modify them at will. The ultimate goal is to supplement these > >> notebooks with important information that they lack, and to fix > >> factual errors in them. I want all the built-in Mathematica help > >> facilities to point to these annotated notebooks rather than to > >> the "official" ones. > > >> ~kj > >Now I'm intrigued... Can we make a wiki version?!? > > That's exactly right. In fact, I think that something similar to > a wiki should be the standard way to document all software. The > difference from a wiki is that the various strands of contribution > (including the original documentation) are kept separate. The > viewer can choose to turn on or off strands by individual authors. > I've seen something similar to this done before (Postgres, Perl), > but it has not caught on for some reason, despite the general > proliferation of wikis. > > >(Guessing WRI would > >not be happy with this---umm...copy rights?) > > That was my guess too. Judging by the tight-fistedness of their > documentation, I can guess that they'd want absolute control over > anything that could be construed as documentation for Mathematica. > Avoiding hassles from WRI's lawyers is the main reason I have not > set up a wiki-like site like the one described above. (And I > wouldn't be surprised on bit if WRI has squashed similar efforts > before.) > > ~kj The copy right issue seems especially relevant (to me) given that the documentation is so strongly rooted in the 'Mathematica Book' by Dr. Wolfram. -RG