[DGD] Re: Documentation Effort

[Ling]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Rob Leslie wrote:

[snipped a bunch of stuff re: central database of DGD knowledge]

Bravo, for stepping forward and addressing one of the core deficiencies in
DGD's sex appeal.

Minor point I felt should be raised.  In my opinion, a lot of what I'd
like to know (or like to see other people's opinions on) concern LPC
itself, not something tied to DGD.  Whilst it would be nice to see a whole
bunch of docs about, say, security, it has very little bearing on DGD
specifics.  Not I'd complain or consider this a bad thing mind.  It'll
just show us up as a tighter community than most of the rest of the hobby
mudland where much of the knowledge is passed down 'mouth to mouth'. 

Maybe an associated DGD mud could be set up to say hi to each other but
that'd only fragment us from IdeasExchange.

> To promote consistency, the documents should adhere to some set of style
> rules, possibly enforced by style sheets or macro processing. In the best
> case, the content would be written in a general enough format to produce HTML
> as well as other forms of presentation.

Agreed.  Could just steal a leaf out of any guidelines for a thesis.
Section headers shall be 16 pt New Times Roman. :)

> FWIW, I am willing to donate resources and time to provide some of this
> proposed infrastructure.

Me too.

  |    Ling Lo (fish)
_O_O_  Elec Eng Dept, Loughborough University, UK.     kllo at iee.org




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