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
>
>
>