From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 21 12:37:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09152 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR1-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09142 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11670; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 14:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199704211937.OAA11670@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: LaTeX support To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 14:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "Apr 21, 97 02:32:24 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Gary Clark II wrote: > > > Maybe, since LaTeX is the best way to get a decent hardcopy of the sources. > > If this is taken out, then we need to get the groff versions up to snuff > > (page numbers and such). > > Okay, I'll bite. What is wrong with the groff version? > > (Note: I'm talking about FreeBSD 2.2 and later, not 2.1 for which > your statement is definately true.) Ok, it may have been fixed up since I last took a poke at it, but I do remember that the groff versions did not have page numbers and have the ablitity to do left page/right page with out alot of hacking of the groff source file. The LaTeX version, it is a snap to get dual sided copy. > > -john > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1