[hobbit] Working on Xymon Documentation

[Josh Luthman]

Would you like me to proof before it is published?

On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to R1, we now have 7 volunteers interested in Xymon
> documentation area.
>
> I am interested to find out who are willing to work on Item 2 of R2.
>
> I started a few years back and never got to finish it.
> Henrik gave me S.F. commit privilege for this purpose. so I still own
> him the set of docs.
>
> I worked on this and later found I am really bad at English Writing.
> So I try to convert the troff files
> into latex file and have the book center around existing set of troff files.
> I got a RTFM xymon book for my me and my colleague to study Xymon with.
>
> New I have a two data sources issue, latex and troff files. So every
> time troff files changed
> latex file need to be changed as well. This is quite labor intensive.
>
> I looked around and found there is latex2troff file converter, the
> make process can generate troff file.
> If we can have all team members use latex then we can generate all
> Xymon doc into different formats use latex.
>
> For now I like to invite people interested about this xymon-latex
> project to join me.
> I will clean up and upload my existing work to S.F.
> sandbox/tjyang/docs directory.
>
> Lots of work here to generate Xymon docs set(using latex)
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards
>
> tj
>
>
> R1:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
> R2:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_Documentation
> --
> T.J. Yang
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