[m-dev.] Re: Web pages

[Fergus Henderson]

Peter Schachte, you wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Tyson Richard DOWD wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we should modify the documents so that they use the version
> > number generated by configure or something (although this would have
> > it's drawbacks too).

Yes, that might be a good idea.

> Having the version number in the documents (and correct) and having the
> correct date in there would be a really good idea, and would prevent the
> sort of confusion that got me.  If you don't want to do that, just *not*
> having the wrong date would be a help. 

Done (see diff below).

> An index would also be very useful.  One per manual/guide would be good; 
> one that worked across all the manuals would be *very* good. 

TexInfo has good support for creating indices.

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doc/reference_manual.texi:
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 @titlepage
 @title The Mercury Language Reference Manual
- at subtitle April, 1996
 @author Fergus Henderson
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