Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Wayne Dahl <[email protected]> · Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:48:22 -1000

How about an EPICS Wiki? http://www.twiki.org  We use that here at Keck and
it seems to be useful for maintaining documentation.

Wayne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Record Type Doc
> 
> 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I think that that template was prepared by a tech writer here 
> at LANL who has long since departed, and I don't know 
> personally what has become of it.
> 
> Since an integrated record reference manual will potentially 
> have input from many sources perhaps we should consider 
> preparing a document template that does not require a 
> proprietary document system such as FrameMaker. 
> 
> It has also been suggested that we could embed the record 
> documentation in each record's .dbd file using dbd keyword 
> extensions specialized for documentation.
> 
> Suggestions (and contributions) are gratefully solicited.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benjamin Franksen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 4:49 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Record Type Doc
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I believe that this has been asked several times before. 
> Nevertheless 
> > i ask again: Is there any kind of template for record type 
> > documentation in the style of the Record Reference Manual? 
> Or, lacking 
> > such a thing, can I copy the documentation's source for instance of 
> > the aoRecord?
> > 
> > The HTML version of the RRM tells me that it was made using 
> Harlequin 
> > WebMaker, which suggests to me that the original source of the 
> > documentation is FrameMaker document.
> > 
> > Ben
> 
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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