[Biojava-l] Preparation for a 1.1 release?

[Thomas Down]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:40:13PM +0000, Keith James wrote:
> 
>     Thomas>    - Does anyone have any comments about the current set
>     Thomas> of tutorials?
> 
> Both the 'Symbols & SymbolLists ' and 'Sequences & Features' ones were
> absolutely vital for me to get started. If they hadn't been there I
> might have given up (or at least put it off until later). Working code
> snippets are a great way of pulling together the (somewhat abstract)
> concepts applied in the various packages and saying "here's how these
> fit together in a useful way".

Glad to know that someone found them useful!

>     Thomas>    - More tutorials would be great.  In particular:
> 
>     Thomas>       + SequenceDBs + The search packages (if we get this
>     Thomas> hooked up to BLAST and/or FASTA).
> 
> I admit it, I'm a documentation facist. I'll do the Fasta search
> docs/tutorial when the code is working. Is there going to be a common
> format (DocBook, or something?)

Nothing wrong with documentation facists.  In fact, a few more
might be useful ;-).

The current tutorial chapters are just written straight off
in XHTML and simple CSS stylesheeting, but this needn't set
a precendent.  I've not used the Docbook XML myself, but you're
welcome to use it for things you write yourself, and I'm open
to persuasion if you think I should be using it too.

Thanks,

Thomas.
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