From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 4 13:27:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from web21106.mail.yahoo.com (web21106.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8955537B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:27:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020104212709.3086.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21106.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:27:09 PST Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:27:09 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya Subject: Re: -> (?) To: doc@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3C35CE4A.40904@pittgoth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 hi, I am sure there is a tag which has a lot of functionality. Maybe what we can do , is add more attribute values to it, rather than making whole new tags. and other values to the 'class' attribute, we can add port, protocol, and other ones like them... what do you think? regards, - Hiten - --- Tom Rhodes wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:48:02PM -0800, Bruce A. > Mah wrote: > > > >>If memory serves me right, Mario Sergio Fujikawa > Ferreira wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:19:34AM +0000, Nik > Clayton wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:09:26AM +0200, Peter > Pentchev wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Is there a reason to use instead of > when referring > >>>>>to a port? If not, how about the attached > patch? > >>>>> > >>>>I'm still uneasy about . Apart from the > ambiguous name: > >>>> > >>>> The webserver listens on port > 80. > >>>> > >>>> The printer is connected to > lpt0. > >>>> > >>>>the rest of the world prefers the 'package' > nomenclature. > >>>> > >>>>I'd be more comfortable with a > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>or > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>mechanism. Or perhaps > >>>> > >>>> category="archivers">unzip > >>>> > >>>>or even > >>>> > >>>> package="archivers/unzip">unzip > >>>> > >>> I tend to agree. The later mechanisms both are > not ambiguous > >>>and help in parsing. > >>> Now that we mention it. What about a > > >>>tag? > >>> Furthermore, shouldn't we use more > ? > >>> > >>> TCP,IRC,FTP are all protocols and acronyms.... > >>> > >>Waitasecond. I'm a little leery of adding a lot > of Yet Another Element > >>as a non-standard FreeBSD extension to the DocBook > DTD. > >> > >>I felt this way when someone introduced > but I didn't say > >>so at the time. Maybe I should have...although > it'd be easy to switch > >>to something like class="package">. Personally, > >>this is the solution I prefer. > >> > >>We should take roam's patch, to get the remaining > package names into > >>compliance with our current convention. *Then* we > should see about > >>getting rid of and replacing it with > >>class="package"> or some variant > thereof. > >> > > > > FWIW, I agree with this - and not just because > it's my patch :) > > Yes, is misleading; yes, we should think of > something better; > > but when we do, it will be much, much easier to do > a mass-replace > > of .. with role="better">..., > > if we are certain that this will catch *all* > referrals to ports and > > packages. > > > > G'luck, > > Peter > > > > > > cat chapter.sgml | sed "s/\//g" | sed > "s/\<\\/port\>//g" > > chapter.sgml.new && mv chapter.sgml chapter.old > > then just move chapter.sgml.new to chapter.sgml or > add another && mv > command in the section above to do it all in one > swift stroke. Maywbe > an awk scrip would do the trick on this also :) > opinions? > > That will just be a quick clean to the > ... reference, I > used it before in an sgml doc, and noticed that it > saved me alot of time > cleaning up and changing tags. > > -- > Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes > www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front > www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message ===== SSH Fingerprint: 1024 45:a5:9c:f2:fb:07:da:70:18:02:0b:f3:63:f1:7a:a6 hitenp@hpdi.ath.cx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message