Re: Octave web pages

[Quentin Spencer]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 31-Jan-2006, Bill Denney wrote:
>
> | I don't think that I'll be able to take it over full time, but I could 
> | definitely help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Given that the pages have remained essentially unchanged for the last
> N years, they don't really *require* a lot of work, but it would be
> nice if someone could help to update them with news and info
> periodically.
>
> Currently, they are generated from some templates using a home-brew
> set of M4 macros.  I chose this solution so that the pages could have
> a consistent appearance that could also be easily modified (this was
> done before CSS).
>
> If we move them to savannah, then we will need to convert to HTML
> only -- the pages that are checked in to CVS can only be HTML.  So I
> think the first thing would probably be to generate some clean
> HTML+CSS from the current pages. I can help with that, but if you are
> a CSS wizard, then you may be able to help me more than I can help
> you.
>  

I have a little CSS experience and was recently thinking about proposing 
an update to the Octave web pages using CSS. Like Bill, I don't have a 
lot of time, but I could definitely share this responsibility with 
others who are interested.

-Quentin