Documentation was: Re: [Mapserver-users] Using STYLE objects

[Sean Gillies]

I like the dev.mysql.com site.  Another good example of a
developer/community site is

   http://dev.zope.org

Sean

On Jun 23, 2004, at 12:48 PM, David Fawcett wrote:

> Great idea Steve.  I think that this would be very useful and add a 
> more
> user-friendly way for people to link examples to specific areas of the
> documentation.
>
> For those of you who are wondering what the MySQL docs look like, here
> is a link to a sample page from the documentation.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Linux-RPM.html
>
> David.
>
> David J. Fawcett
> MN Office of Environmental Assistance
>
>>>> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> 6/23/2004 12:29:07 PM
>>>>
> Just I thought here, but it seems that we should be updating the
> documentation to indicate deprecated keywords and to suggest the
> appropriate way of doing things.
>
> Also have you been to the mysql doc site, It would be nice id
> documentation was using the same tools with the ability of users to add
>
> comments and examples to any of the sections (for example: each mapfile
>
> object could be a section and allow for individual comments). I think
> this would help people by keeping the documentation up to date and it
> would help the doc staff by collecting additional information that
> needs
> to be added or explained better in the docs.
>
> -Steve
>
> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
>>> The SYMBOL really should be inside the STYLE object, that would make
> it
>>> less of a kludge. The old keywords at the class level really affect
> one
>>> of two styles behind the scenes. One main one and one for overlay.
> Folks
>>> should move away from those shortcuts.
>>
>>
>> Call me Mr. Kludge - I could really use a short lesson on using STYLE
>
>> instead of the typical shortcut :)
>> Should I just be moving all my style and symbol-related parameters
> into a
>> STYLE object in the CLASS?  Does 4.2 support named styles?
>>
>> Once I'm up to speed then I'll look at updating the docs Jeff and I
>> created for the vector data access workshop.
>> I suggest others do the same, every tutorial/training guide I
> reviewed on
>> the Mapserver site still uses the old method!
>>
>>
>> Tyler
>>
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