Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:30:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook Illustrations Message-ID: <20000615003005.A46703@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20000614124904.B25244@phoenix.welearn.com.au>; from jon@welearn.com.au on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:49:09PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006121730500.44305-100000@pike.cdrom.com> <20000614124904.B25244@phoenix.welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:49:09PM +1000, Jonathan Michaels wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:23:32PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > Are there any plans to replace the ASCII art in the FreeBSD Handbook
> > with simple xfig diagrams? The ASCII looks really out of place in the
> > printed (PostScript) version of the handbook that was recently
> > published.
> > With a few simple changes to the makefile and freebsd.dsl we could
> > pass a variable with the -V option to [Open]Jade and let the DSSSL code
> > decide whether to display the graphic (HTML or PostScript output) or the
> > ASCII figure (Text output).
>
> > Does this sounds like a logical way to solve the problem?
>
> not if thier is not a problem .. lots of people still use text
> only consoles. so if your plan is to add functionality, as in
> make the new 'artwork' a part of teh pdf and or ps editions
> while still leaving the 'ascii art' in the html and ascii
> (latin?) text versions of the document.
We can (and will) do that.
% alias | grep netscape
netscape xterm -geometry =120x50 -e w3m http://localhost/
N
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