From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 13 15:45: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F43337BB60 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 131xfW-000MmY-00; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:52:18 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 131xfW-00067H-00; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:52:18 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:52:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook Illustrations Message-ID: <20000613215218.K74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="B92bTrfKjyax39gr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --B92bTrfKjyax39gr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 > 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. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --B92bTrfKjyax39gr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --B92bTrfKjyax39gr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message