From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 12 21:42:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AC4106566B; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@FreeBSD.org) Received: from emx.nitro.dk (leto.nitro.dk [178.63.52.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7858FC08; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailscan.leto.nitro.dk (mailscan.leto.nitro.dk [127.0.1.4]) by emx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA29F2ACF47; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from emx.nitro.dk ([127.0.1.2]) by mailscan.leto.nitro.dk (mailscan.leto.nitro.dk [127.0.1.4]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id OjTJNegqzq2g; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.24] (unknown [89.100.2.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by emx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA7D42ACF42; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1485\)) From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20120812210125.GI1202@acme.spoerlein.net> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:42:24 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <52521438-A6FD-4D59-858F-A42BD7D064C8@FreeBSD.org> References: <201208092302.q79N2BcA079307@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120812210125.GI1202@acme.spoerlein.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1485) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" Subject: Re: why we don't build ps/pdf of /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:42:36 -0000 On 12 Aug 2012, at 22:01, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 23:45:04 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: >>=20 >> On 10 Aug 2012, at 00:02, Anton Shterenlikht = wrote: >>=20 >>> We build /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ into ascii >>> documents. Is there a reason why we don't >>> also build Postscript or PDF? >>=20 >> I suspect since it was considered waste of space originally when it = was set up. >>=20 >> If anyone were to touch those docs I would suggest moving them to the = doc repository instead of changing them where they currently exist as = they don't really belong in src. >=20 > I have this planned, but as with many things I hardly get to do any of > them. Slacking slacking slacking ;-). On a more serious note, sounds great and I really do know the feeling. > The move to doc is needed to cut groff out of the base system. Ah, ok. --=20 Simon L. B. Nielsen