Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 11:45:19 +0000 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, doceng@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The futur of the roff toolchain Message-ID: <20170525114519.GB17188@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> References: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > No the problem left is documentations available in share/doc. > > I would like to push them elsewhere. Those documents are mostly useful for > historical reason (hence we want to keep them) but not really for daily use of > modern FreeBSD. > Another issue with those documentation, they are installed as text/ascii version > in base, which makes most of them not really readable (as the documents has not > be written for a ascii/text target but more for a PDF/html view - using pic(1) > for example) > > A plan was to push as sources in the svn doc repository and continue to build > them. This approach also have an issue: over the time roff evolved a bit and > while working on heirloom doctools import I had to fix a bunch of markup to make > the rendering of those documents clean (also meaning almost noone should read > them considering some were not really readable). > > What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and push them > somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website. > Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them. > Unless anyone on doceng@ objects within the next three days, I will create a new directory for the PDFs under doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/. Glen Hat: doceng@ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEjRJAPC5sqwhs9k2jAxRYpUeP4pMFAlkmw8oACgkQAxRYpUeP 4pPGnw/+M+TI/COFXDONgIFGRlJMYt9Hs0CtD/aUQYnRavids7Ydj0ZJswCSFGsi wHI3y8HtSd9f7+gTEMC1gyeTIPTIRvIB/9iDhujhJ0RTYrlBop2FPI5hdWjXUXjK 6Xx12t4RaQ4sMvr3HChwZh5Co83N8hxuERJC3d7AjyJRoH8/tu00Yps29GAYDF8y KV4rXIuh9xmEZ49twO71ZXxdWbwWtbTNER5kmqs/7ipt/6t+ZGZK41kF1SQrcTc8 P+Pb59mqR5hEGod6k9XzBYmSLeHhxc4RJE1J9reN8W+30Vhf9ey5MPQvzzlg9TXg IN4zmMO8zs+3LI3U0N0VHkwB5pHPnkmubvK3fHcyPdofBMI82g3kHZZx0N+yWx43 HG8W6vTDHVUVu4SfqtiKnTk+mZxovQYkWkD5yEnd+FqQxTRpNDNtEjMrV2l2nMN5 PtgwBCU3+Ohdr0i8N6A9YYs+zxk0kMQrwuSLs9FK1soFC32oMn/z81WLdkQKYlLv z6F4N8rgMISv+pQJfCsH3M6ThFnPO+VjdEPAlbu3lSNtUnc+1KS5BaSfUZNN0lBw NsIRHyRKzlSsKiMSTSLn8q4t9JCOG0+dOwfYPo/6YpQGqCJkFkxPteSqGajozKEK dLkc6CermAxA+ovjJ+KflWFJEhCt1aXyc3zTb8UZyrtCk9qbiJw= =aTuO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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