Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:52:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook Illustrations Message-ID: <20000613215218.K74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006121730500.44305-100000@pike.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006121730500.44305-100000@pike.cdrom.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? I can > provide diffs if someone isn't already working on this. We could pay > interns here at BSDI to actually make the graphics. I think Nik was looking at how to best incorporate graphics in the doc tree, you might like to talk to him about it. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: UeDiRJN/zVngVNkHxqkrcrAuFxRoVzDk iQCVAwUBOUafASsPVtiZOS99AQG/3AP+LFPfxKP0Q6YQvVXvsfrIt2/xz5YsUBDi bvV6QPvQ/kIXMf2p9zwBSmAEGLdumEXlfA0DL1gz6ZRiLGGFUoeod4dwWOgsKPNo mZ6hIZKenZ3U6uAHeyzrsAVi+7jSAw3wQb3VG7Ka+7waEESnQBfLQKJSleai049k eKIPCBhzduo= =TFtq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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