[plt-scheme] How to find Planet package documentation

Thanks a lot. And thanks for doing the science collection. Very nice piece
of work.

-pp


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Doug Williams <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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