From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 13 6:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (alsatian.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2F714FE0; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 06:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (pineapple.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.58]) by alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12549; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:58:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200001131458.JAA12549@alsatian.cslab.vt.edu> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000113010742.I8876@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:59:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: branch vs. osversion* (was: Re: "ze" and "zp" drivers remov Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Jan-00 Nik Clayton wrote: > [ Ploughing through my unread mail archives ] heh :) > On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:25:16AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> > Last time I talked this over with Nik we came to some sort of id="" like >> > argument to a tag which would be os="". > > Yeah. osversionmin, osversionmax, and osversionin (which was caused > osversionequal in the original proposal -- osversionin could take a > comma separated list of versions, for example). Any ideas on ETA for this? >> I'm also worried about readability. If there are lots of pieces that get >> cut >> out, then you are going to have a document that abruptly stops and starts in >> some places instead of flowing. > > While these attributes could be used on paragraphs, or smaller elements, > generally I expect we'll only be using them for notes or similar. So > in this precise example we might pull out this entire section as necessary, > instead of just removing a sentence or two. Ok, as long as readability and general 'flow' is maintained I'll be happy. > N > -- > If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping > on a penguin's face forever. > --- with apologies to George Orwell -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message