Thread overview
Editor wanted?
Jan 30, 2005
Walter
Jan 30, 2005
Manfred Nowak
Jan 30, 2005
Walter
Jan 30, 2005
Andrew Fedoniouk
Jan 31, 2005
Rex Couture
Feb 01, 2005
Rex Couture
Feb 01, 2005
zwang
Feb 21, 2005
Ben Hinkle
Feb 22, 2005
Joshua Cearley
January 30, 2005
There's so much happening with everyone using D, I've lost track of it. Hence, the news (www.digitalmars.com/d/dnews.html) and links (www.digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html) have fallen into disrepair, and are formatted ugly anyway.

Is anyone willing to take these on as an (unpaid) editor? The idea with dnews is to digest the stuff on the n.g. to highlight the most interesting new developments, a digest of what's happening. dlinks is meant as a collection of links to everyone who's put up a web page for their D project. dlinks could certainly be better organized, with better blurbs about each link, and it's certainly missing a lot of links.

Getting both of these in shape would be a big boost to the D community effort. It helps give visibility to those who are working on D projects, and drives traffic to their sites.

I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.


January 30, 2005
"Walter" wrote:

[...]
> Is anyone willing to take these on as an (unpaid) editor?
[...]

I volunteer for co-editing.


> write them in vanilla html
using vim ... promised.

-manfred
January 30, 2005
"Manfred Nowak" <svv1999@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ctiue8$3nt$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Walter" wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Is anyone willing to take these on as an (unpaid) editor?
> [...]
>
> I volunteer for co-editing.
>
>
> > write them in vanilla html
> using vim ... promised.

Ok, let's do it!


January 30, 2005
>
> I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.
>

:)  I can provide my http://blocknote.net to editors. It generates clean HTML. :)

At least it could be used together with VIM.
Edit textual and table portions in WYSIWYG and assemble final doc in VIM
using: Ctrl+L - it will copy current selection as HTML source in clipboard.
( http://blocknote.net/shortcuts.htm )

Tables (if they needed) are way better to create in BlockNote as it has http://blocknote.net/info/rulersexplained.htm .

I am doing my own site in BlockNote. Explantion of how is on the front page
(Page on the server http://terrainformatica.com/news/0001.htm
wrapped dynamicly into http://www.terrainformatica.com/ on request, PHP)

Let me know if this is interesting for Project D, I'll provide details, source code, etc.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com




January 31, 2005
In article <ctic97$2022$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says... ..
>I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.

Indeed.  I suggest verifying all code here:  http://validator.w3.org/ .  That should ensure multi-platform adherence to standards.


January 31, 2005
Rex Couture wrote:

>>I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text
>>editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.
> 
> Indeed.  I suggest verifying all code here:  http://validator.w3.org/.
> That should ensure multi-platform adherence to standards.

One way to clean up the current markup is to use the "Tidy" tool.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/


I used this tidy.cfg:
> tidy-mark: no
> keep-time: yes
> indent: yes
> 
> force-output: yes
> output-xhtml: yes
> clean: yes
> 
> output-encoding: utf8
> output-bom: no
> newline: CRLF

And then added this to <head>:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


And that made most of the HTML files, that came with D, validate ?

--anders
February 01, 2005
In article <ctme0g$1uq9$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Rex Couture says...
>
>In article <ctic97$2022$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says... ..
>>I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.
>
>Indeed.  I suggest verifying all code here:  http://validator.w3.org/ .  That should ensure multi-platform adherence to standards.

I don't know why I didn't do it before, but I tried validating this site.  There are a couple of minor errors, like not specifying the character set.

There may be other errors, but code validators are sort of like compilers.  Once they choke on the first bug, they don't give you much help after that.


February 01, 2005
Rex Couture wrote:
> In article <ctme0g$1uq9$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Rex Couture says...
> 
> There may be other errors, but code validators are sort of like compilers.  Once
> they choke on the first bug, they don't give you much help after that.
> 
> 

As far as I see, DMD compiler's error recovery is quite decent.
February 21, 2005
In article <ctic97$2022$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>There's so much happening with everyone using D, I've lost track of it. Hence, the news (www.digitalmars.com/d/dnews.html) and links (www.digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html) have fallen into disrepair, and are formatted ugly anyway.
>
>Is anyone willing to take these on as an (unpaid) editor? The idea with dnews is to digest the stuff on the n.g. to highlight the most interesting new developments, a digest of what's happening. dlinks is meant as a collection of links to everyone who's put up a web page for their D project. dlinks could certainly be better organized, with better blurbs about each link, and it's certainly missing a lot of links.
>
>Getting both of these in shape would be a big boost to the D community effort. It helps give visibility to those who are working on D projects, and drives traffic to their sites.
>
>I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.
>
>

Any progress on this? It would be nice to see.


February 22, 2005
Walter wrote:

> Is anyone willing to take these on as an (unpaid) editor?

Sure, if the offer is still valid. If you're interested and the offers valid.. send me an email (jtech AT ezoob DOT com) along with any other requests.

> I do have one request - write them in vanilla html using an ordinary text editor, not one of those wretched, bloated wysiwyg html editors.

LOL--I know what you mean. I am working on a site in Ruby on Rails that the guy used dreamweaver for the layout. I had to rewrite the html because it was not scalable (adding news to the front page destroyed the layout)

-Joshua Cearley
BlackCrystal Software
"Making dreams reality"