Updated Kawa/Qexo news pages

Andreas Schlapbach schlpbch@bluewin.ch
Sat Apr 9 08:29:00 GMT 2005


Dear list

HTML Tidy does a excellent job at transforming handcrafted HTML to 
standard complying HTML:

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

Just run 'tidy -m <fileName.html>'.

Hope that helps,
-andreas

Per Bothner wrote:
> I replaced the Kawa NEWS file in text format with two html pages:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/news.html (General)
> http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/news.html (Qexo/XQuery-specific)
> (Maybe in the future we'll have a JEmacs-specific pages, and
> split out the Scheme-specific stuff in a separate page.)
> 
> I did a very quick conversion from text to HTML, and I probably
> made some mistakes and failed to update something that needed updating.
> I concentrated on the most recent changes.  Certainly, there are lot
> of places where I didn't put things in <code> like they should be.
> 
> I also tweaked the Kawa hope page to apologize for its age, and to
> link to the new news page.  (This may take a few minutes to an hour
> before gnu.org gets updated.)
> 
> Hopefully this will cut down a little bit on the inquires I get "is
> Kawa still alive?" - or worse, people who discount Kawa because it
> looks abandoned :-(.  The idea is I'll update this file, rather than
> the NEWS file in the source tree, so people will see changes more
> quickly, without having to get the cvs source code.
> 
> If you see any outright errors please let me know.  Formatting fixed are
> also welcome.  These are a hand-edited html files, so a simple diff of
> the web page will be easiest to apply, but if you don't know html,
> feel free to point out mistakes using plain English



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