From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 4 5:18:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 05:18:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D857337B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 05:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB3MpjV04120; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:51:45 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:51:45 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Michael Lucas Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubleshooting tree revisited Message-ID: <20001203225144.A4078@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001130164838.A42727@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001130164838.A42727@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:48:39PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > jkh suggested a nice file that contained the decision tree, and that > could be parsed to generate HTML. That's a great idea. I'm > completely unqualified to do it properly. (I'm qualified to do it > suckily, but I don't have time to make something that sucks.) If > you're capable and willing to do this, please stop me now. Unless I misunderstand what you want, I think DocBook's FAQ support would do what you want. So you end up with something like: Question 1: What do you want to do? Answer: Install FreeBSD? Go to question 2. Configure FreeBSD? Go to question 12. Install an application? Go to question 37. Configure an installed application? Go to question 68. Question 2: Have you got a FreeBSD CD? Answer: Yes? Go to question 3. No? Go to question 4. ... If that's the sort of thing you want to do then I'd recommend writing it in DocBook using the and elements. See the FAQ for detailed examples. Don't worry about how you then put each question on a page of its own, that's something that the stylesheets can do (and will do, given appropriate thumping by me). Does that solve the problem? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message