Re: Octave web pages

[Bill Denney]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> So you would substitute Perl for the M4 scripts?

Well, when you say it that way, you're right, it does sound pretty silly.

> I think I would prefer something simple, that anyone who knows a little 
> HTML can edit, over something that uses external tools, even if that 
> means some duplication in the HTML files.

That does make sense.

> Redesigning the pages is OK, but I would first like to get the current
> pages converted to plain and simple HTML+CSS and checked in to the
> savannah CVS archive.  Then we can worry about updating the
> appearance.

OK, well a first attempt is here (starting from m4 macros): 
http://denney.homeip.net/octave-www/octave.html

It's running on my home computer so it may be a tad slow downloading. 
There is still work to do in minimizing the number of tables, etc., but 
there are no colors and I think I took out most if not all the <font> 
tags.  I'll fiddle with it more later tonight, and maybe it will be a good 
starting point for the future pages.

Bill

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