9:49 p.m.
Today I have the joy to announce following new features of the XEmacs
Website and its mirrors:
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XEmacs Website Full-Text Search
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Peter Brown has chosen and installed the Namazu[1] search engine for the
XEmacs Websites.
It's prominently featured at the top of the XEmacs Website sidebar.
You can directly reach it under
http://www.xemacs.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi
as well.
I hope you'll all agree this fills a major gap in the utility of
http://www.xemacs.org/
The archives of our mailing lists at
http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/index.html
remain searchable as before via Wilma/Glimpse.
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XEmacs HTML Manuals
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These are available via the documentation page at
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html
The motivation for this service is to lower the entry level for new
users by making documentation readily available via web browser.
Furthermore people providing help on XEmacs related mailing lists and
news groups have a canonical location now to refer others to
documentation.
Currently all texinfo manuals for XEmacs 21.5 and XEmacs packages are
available in HTML format under
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/
and
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/
respectively.
According to our development model[2]
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/beta/html/
points to XEmacs 21.5 docs at the moment.
Stable (currently 21.1.14) and Gamma (currently 21.4.6) manuals may be
put up in the future depending on public demand.
Feedback on these new features is highly welcome.
Adrian, for The XEmacs Development Team
Footnotes:
[1] See http://www.namazu.org/
[2] See http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/index.html
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10:22 p.m.
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APA> -------------------------------
APA> XEmacs Website Full-Text Search
APA> -------------------------------
Speaking as one who has just recently become
re-acquainted with the latest in XEmacs developments
after a lapse of two or three years, I must say that
this new feature is a genuine pleasure to see. As I
prowled through the many pages of the Web site last
week the one thought that kept recurring was: "I can't
believe there's no search engine here!"
Voilá! My wish has been granted.
However, I have just one question:
APA> Peter Brown has chosen and installed the
APA> Namazu[1] search engine ...
What syllable receives the accent? Is it pronounced
NAHM-a-zu, or na-MAH-zu? :-)
Second ... adding a search facility to my own Web site
has been high on my list of things to do for ages. I
was expecting to write one myself. (I wrote a fairly
simple one in Perl/CGI where I used to work.) However,
out of curiosity, last night I retrieved the Namazu
software, built and installed it. I was delighted at
how easy it was to get this thing installed and
working! Knowing that this engine is being used by no
less reputable a group than the XEmacs developers leads
me to believe that I will probably be implementing this
for my own use.
So thank you for providing this!
You may all return to work now.
--
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ
11:16 p.m.
Lynn David Newton writes:
APA> -------------------------------
APA> XEmacs Website Full-Text Search
APA> -------------------------------
Speaking as one who has just recently become
re-acquainted with the latest in XEmacs developments
after a lapse of two or three years, I must say that
this new feature is a genuine pleasure to see. As I
prowled through the many pages of the Web site last
week the one thought that kept recurring was: "I can't
believe there's no search engine here!"
Voilá! My wish has been granted.
your very welcome :)
However, I have just one question:
APA> Peter Brown has chosen and installed the
APA> Namazu[1] search engine ...
What syllable receives the accent? Is it pronounced
NAHM-a-zu, or na-MAH-zu? :-)
i am unsure as to the pronunciation of namazu
from their web site
(The Japanese word `Namazu' means `catfish' in English.)
so not knowing any japanese i cant help there
Second ... adding a search facility to my own Web site
has been high on my list of things to do for ages. I
was expecting to write one myself. (I wrote a fairly
simple one in Perl/CGI where I used to work.) However,
out of curiosity, last night I retrieved the Namazu
software, built and installed it. I was delighted at
how easy it was to get this thing installed and
working! Knowing that this engine is being used by no
less reputable a group than the XEmacs developers leads
me to believe that I will probably be implementing this
for my own use.
it as a very nifty search engine
i like it very much
So thank you for providing this!
again you are very welcome
and you can thank steven turnbull for suggesting that we use it
i had fun implementing it and i am glad it is geting used
You may all return to work now.
dont worry we have already
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3:32 a.m.
>>>> "rendhalver" == rendhalver <(Peter
Brown)" <rendhalver(a)xemacs.org>> writes:
rendhalver> Lynn David Newton writes:
> What syllable receives the accent? Is it pronounced NAHM-a-zu,
> or na-MAH-zu? :-)
rendhalver> i am unsure as to the pronunciation of namazu
Japanese does not use stress accents to distinguish words. All
syllables get equal stress and equal time. It uses pitch accents (it
is not a toned language like Chinese; a syllable spoken with different
pitch accents is still the same syllable). A trailing "n" is
considered a separate syllable, as is the glottal stop. All other
syllables consist of an optional consonant (there are about 15)
followed by a vowel (one of 5). The consonant really is optional:
o-o-o-o-o-o is a meaningful (made-up) word meaning "big king" with an
obligatory (he's a king, after all!) honorific prefix, followed by a
suffix marking the so-honored big king as a direct object. :-)
Thus NA-MA-ZU.
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6:27 a.m.
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
>>>>> "rendhalver" == rendhalver <(Peter
Brown)" <rendhalver(a)xemacs.org>> writes:
rendhalver> Lynn David Newton writes:
>> What syllable receives the accent? Is it pronounced NAHM-a-zu,
>> or na-MAH-zu? :-)
rendhalver> i am unsure as to the pronunciation of namazu
Japanese does not use stress accents to distinguish words. All
syllables get equal stress and equal time. It uses pitch accents (it
is not a toned language like Chinese; a syllable spoken with different
pitch accents is still the same syllable). A trailing "n" is
considered a separate syllable, as is the glottal stop. All other
syllables consist of an optional consonant (there are about 15)
followed by a vowel (one of 5). The consonant really is optional:
o-o-o-o-o-o is a meaningful (made-up) word meaning "big king" with an
obligatory (he's a king, after all!) honorific prefix, followed by a
suffix marking the so-honored big king as a direct object. :-)
Thus NA-MA-ZU.
thanks stephen
very informative
sounds like a very complex but interesting language
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