Some feedback on the website.

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 17 23:47:14 PST 2015


On 2015-12-17 12:45, Walter Bright wrote:

> You're not one of the people I was referring to, since you do help.

So do it for those who do help and not for those how don't ;)

> Your issue with Ddoc is that the latex pdf generator you used was
> broken? Latex meets your critera as being very widely used. Use another
> pdf generator. Nobody has chained you to Latex.

I could care less about generating a PDF. But apparently someone cared 
and added it to the process of building dlang.org. So if you're willing 
to remove that or replace Latex with something else, please go ahead.

> Jacob, I've adapted several books for Ddoc on their way to being Kindle
> ebooks. Ddoc works fine for the formatting. The WORK is simply not the
> formatting, it's the text creation/editting. If you're spending the bulk
> of your time fiddling with Ddoc rather than text creation, I suspect
> you've gone off the rails somewhere.

Well, see for yourself [1]. None of the comments are related to the 
content. The content is the easy part.

[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1039

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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