[CF List] spell summary

[Mark Wedel]

Juan Segarra wrote:
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      Hi,
     
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      some days ago I started making a pdf version of the spell summary 
     
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      located at crossfire.real-time.com. It was initially for myself, just 
     
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      for having it locally in a single file. However, I think the result 
     
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      could be interesting for adding it in the game documentation, so I send 
     
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      you it, just in case.
     
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      "magic.pdf.gz" is the pdf version
     
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      "magic.tex.gz" is the source latex document, which must be compiled with 
     
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      the pdflatex because it includes many png files.
     
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      "changes" contains all changes/doubts/todo of this document from my 
     
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      point of view.
     
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      I've not included images in this mail, but you can find them in the web.
     
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      Also, the pdf may have errors, so a revision by someone knowing more 
     
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      than me about spells would be nice.
     
     
  Took a quick look at this.

  Looks reasonable.  But to be honest, I'm getting a little wary of adding 
tex/latex documents, as there generally seems to be a lack of anyone to maintain 
them.

  I notice the spell-docs directory in the server distribution hasn't been 
modified in almost 3 years - certainly way out of date.  I'm also not sure the 
origin of all the files there (doc/spell-docs), as there are postscript versions 
without any clear indication how they get built.

  I personally would like all docs to be in HTML - tools necessary to build 
those are easier, and I think HTML is more widely known that lex.

  I can understand the desire to have just a single file that contains all the 
information.  I wonder if there is a HTML -> pdf tool.  I guess worst case is it 
can be done as HTML -> postscript, and I think ghostscript can do ps -> pdf.

  Formatting isn't quite so good in HTML as say tex, but I wonder if the ease of 
only having one set of docs outweighs this.

  I certainly think the file you provide is useful.  It can probably be used to 
replace most of the information in the spell-docs directory.  Unclear right now 
why there are 4 *.txt files in that directory anyways, most of them are quite 
short can could easily just be a quick intro.

  I'm not sure where the spell-summary page on real-time came from. but 
certainly the spell information is a bit out of date.