[plt-scheme] How to find Planet package documentation

And here is the link on PLaneT to the HTML documents. I didn't see this
actual link anywhere.  [You can also find it by browsing the package sources
on PLaneT.  This will work for any collection that has html documentation.]

http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/williams/science.plt/3/0/html/science.html

Doug

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Doug Williams <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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