[GRASS-dev] module synopsis: was Re: [GRASSGUI] wxgrass gui status

[Hamish]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> (I take liberty to make more sense of the email subject)
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:05:44PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > Paul Kelly wrote:
> > > I think I agree, in so far as it would be nice to have the command
> > > 
> > > description stuff separated out in a separate file (rather than
> > > hard-coded into the GUI) to allow e.g. documentation, lists of
> > > useful commands to be  generated automatically from it.
> > ..
> > > having the correspondence between the menus and the commands in a
> > > separate file might also make it easier to document this, with a
> > > bit of scripting.
> > 
> > 
> > see tools/build_html_index.sh
> > and tools/module_synopsis.sh
> > 
> > module_synopsis.txt reworked in LyX -> PDF
> >   http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/grassmanuals/grass63_module_list.pdf
> >   (in CVS) web/gdp/grassmanuals/ 
> 
> Should I make this a cronjob?

(module_synopsis.sh requires grass to be running)

I would really like to parse module_synopsis.txt into a LaTeX template
and generate the nice PDF automatically. I don't know if anybody is
interested in module_synopsis.txt on its own.


> PS: The GRASS ProgMan is now (finally) a cronjob (saturday):
>     http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass63progman/

Great!


Hamish