From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 10 7:21:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5254937B405; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f6AELYm22097 ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id QAA55611 ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:21:33 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the Handbook Message-ID: <20010710162133.D52928@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010710135753.G16152@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010710135450.EA8803E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010710135450.EA8803E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:54:50AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dima Dorfman said on Jul 10, 2001 at 06:54:50: > Berkeley stuck their BSDL on the man pages that shipped with 4.4BSD. > I mean they stuck it on them verbatim; it still mentions distribution > in source and binary form :-). I'd call PDF a binary form :-) The O'Reilly style guide looks quite good. How about simply linking to it (as a suggestion/recommendation to authors) on the documentation project page, rather than copying it or seeking to formally co-opt it? It doesn't say anything about writing style, which some people on this list were worried about earlier (formal vs informal). R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message