[plt-scheme] How to find Planet package documentation

I'm should be getting around to upgrading the science and simulation
collection documentation to Scribble over the next few months.  Until then,
viewing the documents on PLaneT is the best alternative.  [Although I would
still like to put in another plug to automatically link to any HTML
documents that are included with a package.  In the case of the science
collection, I'm not sure how I'll do the equations in scribble.]

If you have any problems, please let me know.

I should have the inference collection updated this weekend.  It's been a
bit more of a chore to port it completely to V4.0.

Doug

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM, pedro pinto <pedro.e.pinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Carl. The documentation does not seem to be available from the
> Planet web-site (all you get is a stub pointing you to help-desk), but, as
> you suggest, the excellent docs can be found on the planet cache.
>
> On minor oddity is that the science collection is marked on the Planet
> web-site as version 2.9 while the latest version seems to be 3.0 (according
> to "planet show").
>
> -pp
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, pp <pedro.e.pinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I just downloaded the science collection from planet with:
>> >
>> > (require (planet williams/science/science-with-graphics))
>> >
>> > How do I get to its documention? F1 on the collection name returns no
>> > results and neither does searching the documentation for science or
>> > williams
>>
>> Pedro,
>>
>> You can find documentation linked at the package's web page off the planet
>> site:
>>
>> http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=science.plt&owner=williams
>>
>> http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/williams/science.plt/2/9/doc.txt
>>
>> Unfortunately, many planet packages cannot be found in Help Desk, as
>> it does not index text or html documentation (the old formats) and
>> most packages have not updated to Scribble documentation (the new
>> format).  For now you'll have to look them up on the web page, or find
>> the doc.txt or html files in the directory where planet installs them.
>>
>> I hope that helps, good luck with the science package.
>>
>> --
>> Carl Eastlund
>>
>
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