From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Nov 7 13:42:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13182 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:42:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13098 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:42:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10685; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 21:29:32 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981107212931.28126@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 21:29:31 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Christine McKinty - Sun Microsystems , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD manpages in SGML? References: <199811061532.QAA26783@odin.France.Sun.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199811061532.QAA26783@odin.France.Sun.COM>; from Christine McKinty - Sun Microsystems on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:32:23PM +0100 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:32:23PM +0100, Christine McKinty - Sun Microsystems wrote: > I learned from your Documentation Current Projects page that you are > going to be providing the documentation in SGML in future. Are you > also planning to convert the manpages? Only in the sense that I've idly thought that it might be a project to tackle in the medium future. I haven't got much beyond that stage though. > I'm working on a project that will deliver a very large set of > manpages, including some from the FreeBSD 2.2.7 release. Our home-grown > manpages are marked up in SGML. It would be great if I had everything in the > same format! Would you be doing the conversion? We currently provide translations of the manual pages into different languages, and we could treat this as just another language (pretty much). Would you be interested in co-ordinating this and keeping them up to date? N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message