From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 7 9:54:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FB937B404 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020507165446.LUON2627.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:54:46 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g47GsjL8018080; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g47GsjtE018079; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Ceri Davies Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Links within the Handbook In-Reply-To: <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> References: <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> Comments: In-reply-to Ceri Davies message dated "Tue, 07 May 2002 17:49:15 +0100." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1680007448P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 09:54:45 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1680007448P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote: > 1) Make symlinks for all the books and articles like we do now for the > FAQ and handbook (this really sucks); > > 2) Get wosch to redirect /FAQ and /handbook in httpd.conf instead of using > symlinks, and expect everyone running a mirror to do the same (wooh, that > bites); > > 3) Change all of these ulinks so that they're absolute and not relative, > and then head back into doc/en_US..., and expect translators to fix > this themselves when they do a translation (ouch). > > I think 3 is the closest to what we'll eventually need to do, but all three > suck in different ways. In addition, #3 is the only one that isn't broken for printed output. I have this dim recollection of someone spending cycles on the "relative URLs vs. printed output" problem before, but I am not sure what happened. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1680007448P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE82AbV2MoxcVugUsMRAgOkAKDrRHwe8FPr8KOZ40ywmwqLV9qT7QCg+JCg +BElVKLT3whqbMZ3mBGr7Tw= =qXSc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1680007448P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message