From ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz  Thu May 22 22:30:31 1997
From: ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Ross Ihaka)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 09:30:31 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: R-alpha: S-help  (and  S-help-to-R-help)
Message-ID: <199705222130.JAA14823@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>

Before you invest too much effort in fancy conversion scripts ...

I really want to change the documentation format to something based on
SGML - this should be much easier to parse than the present m4
macro-based stuff, and allow use to use more sophisticated tools for
the construction and processing of documentation.

Like much of R, the present solution was just a temporary hack ...
But it is something which is getting to the top of the list.

Any filter you create should have a back-end which could be (easily)
adapted to a new format.

	Ross
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R-alpha: S-help (and S-help-to-R-help)
Ross Ihaka