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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:02:34 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to mkdoc and re: portability information
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, George Foot wrote:

> If we want to be really fancy, we could enclose the whole @multitable
> in a @cartouche (which draws a frame with rounded corners around the
> table--in the printed output alone, of course).

Which reminds me-- seems to me I once tried to TeX libc.txi and it
failed miserably.  Has anyone done this successfully?  It could easily
have been a bad installation on my part, missing fonts or such (it was
on a Unix box, and I don't use TeX much).
 
> > The problem is of course that nobody knows about every compiler; if
> > possible it would be best to have each function's documentation
> > updated by one person, but that's clearly not possible because for
> > many functions no one person will know enough about enough compilers
> > to be able to add all the information.
> 
> Come on, let's do it the DJGPP way: somebdoy should do the first cut
> as best as they can, post the diffs and gather comments from whoever
> cares to comment.  If we wait for the perfect solution, we will wait
> forever.

Unless someone else wants to, I can do this as time permits (though I
may be somewhat busy for several days).  After mkdoc stabilizes a bit,
of course.

> > Systematically checking whether djgpp's functions
> > behave in the same way as their counterparts on other compilers would
> > be extremely tedious
> 
> I don't think anybody would expect to have this information.  It's too
> much.  Let's add notes as the experience and user feedback dictate.

I agree.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com