I think it would be useful to put "all" the latex commands/references/symbols into a wiki that lets you build ontologies and have metadata. In particular, I think something like Semantic Mediawiki would be useful. Here's why: * You can create templates and forms to easily add and edit references * All of the templates and forms will store the data with appropriate metadata. * You can display the information on the wiki easily using inline queries * You can then query the wiki using a SPARQL like syntax and get the results back in many different formats (CSV, RDF, JSON, etc). * You can easily build groups of symbols/functions and extend the data structures at a level in which you don't need to be a programmer and almost anyone can help to maintain it. I'm in the process of putting together a set of templates, forms, and metadata constructs to organize the comprehensive latex symbol list in this fashion as we are using latex in our FlexBook system at http://flexbooks.ck12.org. As I make progress on this work I'll update this list so that the bullet points can be better understood with a real example to look at. -Josh On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Karl Berry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I just would like to add <http://www.miwie.org/tex-refs/> to the > sources > already mentioned. Unfortunately, Michael Wiedmann seems to have stopped > working on his "References for TeX and Friends". The source is written > in DocBook/XML, and I think it's still the most recent source available > for a project like this, apart from the much older LaTeX online help. > > As far as I could tell, the miwie stuff was basically a docbook > translation of the unofficial latex reference manual in texinfo, > originally written for 2.09 and updated by various people over the > years, most recently me -- http://home.gna.org/latexrefman. > > This is the project I had in mind when I asked my question. I made > quite a few updates to it over the last couple years, so I think it is > "newer" than miwie; I added many 2.09 commands but had no luck finding > any 2e list. Hence my question. I did not have any precise > "specification" in mind. > > Of course the "latexrefman" is purely unofficial, but of course if the > latex group itself has the wherewithal to maintain something along those > lines, then that would be vastly preferable :). > > Thanks to everyone for the info about the command index and all else. > -- <http://joshuagay.org>