Better docs for D (WIP)

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Last week, I posted in the general forum my dream for better D 
docs. Today, about 4 days of work later, I'm about 1/4 of the way 
there.

Still a long way to go, but I've already come so far.

First, behold my old dpldocs.info site. Yes, it is still up and 
now it ties into my new docs! You can use it to quickly jump to a 
doc given its name:

http://dpldocs.info/

Inspired by the php docs, I also have it able to search direct 
from a URL. Click this:

http://dpldocs.info/findSkip

and it automatically sends you here:

http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.algorithm.searching.findSkip.html


I haven't run all of Phobos through my generator yet (it still 
crashes on some of it) but I have run a lot of it through so you 
can browse around and get a feel.


I also described why in This Week in D last night: 
http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/dec-27.html



While I'm still probably at least a month away from having this 
really finished, I feel it is already a massive improvement on 
the main docs and wanted to announce it so other people can give 
it a try too.



Once I finish the generator, I'll start writing new articles to 
fill in some of the dummy links there, and perhaps make minor 
changes to Phobos itself (if I can make changes that help me 
without hurting the existing ddoc based site or source 
legibility). The new articles are a big part of the work too!

Finally, when I am happy with this program, I will document the 
doc generator and release it for other people to use too.

But until then, have fun playing with dpldocs.info!