Converted spice.txt to texinfo


To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
From Arno <A.W.Peters@ieee.org>
Date Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:26:12 +0200
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G'day,

I have converted the manual spice.txt in lib/helpdir into texinfo
source.  It compile without errors to info files and TeXing the source 
generates only a few `Underfull \hbox' warnings.

As copyright notice, I have chosen to use the one given by the website
of Berkeley University.  The only thing I am not sure of is the year
of the copyright.  Currently it stands at 1996 which may be off by a
couple of years.


There are still unresolved issues in the text:

* mathematical formulas

   currently in ASCII art, but should be converted to TeX for the
   printed version, the online version can still use the originals.

* indexes for functions, variables, ...

   main problem: there are none.

* tables

   need to convert them to texinfo equivalent



As this file is 321k big and I don't have CVS write access.  I will
not bother everybody by sending it to this mailing list.

Manu, can I trust you to download it and commit it to the repository?

  cd ng-spice/lib/helpdir
  wget http://cgmd74125.chello.nl/~arno/spice.texi
  wget http://cgmd74125.chello.nl/~arno/texinfo.tex

Also apply the following patch to make the generated info files
automatically installed to the info documentation tree.

===================================================================
RCS file: /var/services/cvsroot/ng-spice/lib/helpdir/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -u -r1.3 Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am 1999/08/23 20:14:40     1.3
+++ Makefile.am 1999/08/30 17:38:54
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 EXTRA_DIST = spice.txt spice.idx
 
+info_TEXINFOS = spice.texi
+
 helpdatadir = $(pkgdatadir)/helpdir
 
 helpdata_DATA = spice.idx spice.txt


Greetings,
Arno

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