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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:38:49 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt
Message-ID:  <20001206223849.E2734@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001206121137.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:11:37PM -0800
References:  <20001206205301.A2278@freebie.demon.nl> <XFMail.001206121137.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:11:37PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 06-Dec-00 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:48:53AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >> > where it left off without docs).  That leads me to wonder, however,
> >> > if we ever have any plans of fixing this:
> >> > 
> >> > ===> en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/committers-guide
> >> > /usr/local/bin/jade -ioutput.html -ioutput.html.images -V nochunks  -c
> >>                 ^^^^^^
> >> The build (at least on Alpha) needs to switch to openjade.
> >> 
> >> > Something is really hosed with jade on the alpha.
> >> 
> >> And will be so forever. :-(  Jade development has been stopped.  But 
> >> Open Jade doesn't have as rich foreign language support.  (who knows why
> >> since they started with the Jade source....)
> > 
> > $0.02 from someone who knows zilch about jade: is it really necessary to
> > have all these different formatters/layout tools etc etc etc to format 
> > our docs?
> 
> Yes.  The docs are written in an abstract SGML markup, so that you don't have
> to make formatting decisions at the time you are writing docs.  You then run
> the docs along with stylesheets through jade and out comes either html or tex. 
OK, I see the point here. But in this case it just produces coredumps ;)

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Wilko Bulte  	 					Arnhem, the Netherlands
wilko@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org 		http://www.nlfug.nl



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