From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 10 21: 1:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D0437B401; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ED743F93; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:01:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h2B518V0016838; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:01:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:38 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: David Schultz 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:52:39 -0800 David Schultz 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