Re: LM 5.2 redistribute

Graham Percival wrote Friday, July 31, 2009 10:50 AM


> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:18:45AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > It also uses \include, which isn't introduced anywhere, but
>
> Woah, seriously?  LM 3.1 is perfect for that.  Anyway, I'll leave
> this for you.

OK

> > Perhaps we should move 5.1 Suggestions for writing ... to
> > LM 3 too.  LM 3 then becomes rather more general, but that's
> > no bad thing.  Shall I do that now?
>
> No; I think the rest of LM 5 is going into the AU.  Makefiles: AU
> without a doubt.

Fine

> Suggestions and Errors: we could make a case in
> both ways.  For me, it comes down to two things:
> - people might want to look at Errors during their daily use,
>  whereas theoretically the LM is for an initial-read only.
>  (assuming people remember the overall info)

OK

> - AU is looking really lean once we kill AU 1 and 2, so this would
>  give that manual more of a reason to exist.

Not a *good* reason, though

> Besides, "suggestions for writing files" totally _sounds_ like
> "usage" information to me.  :)

Not sure about "totally".  Maybe 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and 5.1.3 are
"usage", but 5.1.4 and 5.1.5 look much more like teaching
material to me.  I'd find these last two useful in LM 3.

Trevor



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