Eric, Thanks for the prompt response. I will take a look around and see if I can help make a difference. The site and your e-mail references a "<username>" at common- lisp.net. DO I need one? How do I get one? Or is that something to deal with later? -- gak On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Eric Marsden wrote:
"gk" == Gary Klimowicz <gak@pobox.com> writes:
gk> I've been increasingly concerned over the past couple of years about gk> the state of the Lisp FAQ. Yesterday while cleaning out my files I gk> ran across the hideously old version (the 7-part version that hadn't gk> been touched since 1997) and thought I would take a look around and gk> see if there was a new project. Lo and Behold! I found this. gk> gk> I would like to help update this and bring the FAQ back to life. What gk> can I do to help?
I'm afraid that both myself Christophe Rhodes (who started the previous revival of the FAQ, on which the common-lisp.net version is based) lack the energy necessary to improve the FAQ. Please feel free to post patches to the sources, which you can access via CVS at
export CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -d :ext:<username>@common-lisp.net:/project/lispfaq/ cvsroot co lispfaq
The sources are encoded in the XML version of Docbook, and can be transformed to HTML using Norman Walsh's stylesheets, via a command something like
xsltproc -o $(TMPDIR)/ --path /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/ nwalsh/xhtml faq.xsl faq.xml
I'd be very happy to see an up to date, useful and balanced cll FAQ !
-- Eric Marsden