Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:38 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> Cc: seanc@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030311000038.7963f10e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030310195323.GA2812@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030310204035.GU79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:52:39 -0800 David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > Actually, I was thinking of the fact that properly laid out > DocBook can be converted into a (slightly more concise) mdoc file. > I have nothing against a manpage listing all of the sysctls, but I > think that centralizing the information in an SGML-based format > would be much more useful in the long run. And since you can make > a manpage out of that, the only disadvantage I see is the extra > work to put together the DocBook stuff and figure out how to do > the conversion. > There is a utility out there which converts mdoc(7) to HTML, we just need to do that. I've been asked to look into this and am currently doing the `brainstorm' thing. Hopefully I'll have something to commit by the end of this month. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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