From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 15 13:19: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F81537B422; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4FKJ5910218; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4FKJ0F08351; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:19:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200105152019.f4FKJ0F08351@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Randy Pratt Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton , freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Young , Murray Stokely , Jim Mock Subject: Re: Install Preview (was Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) ) In-Reply-To: <01051515135804.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <200105151727.f4FHRos64816@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <01051515135804.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> Comments: In-reply-to Randy Pratt message dated "Tue, 15 May 2001 15:13:58 -0400." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_751432316P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:19:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_751432316P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Randy Pratt wrote: > I used XV to capture the html table views and convert them to 8 bit png > images. These were used instead of the html tables to ease the conversion to > sgml. If you take a look at the source of the 4.2 previews, the tables would > be difficult (if not impossible) to convert to sgml and a problem to maintain That was going to be my next question. Looking at the 4.2 previews...the thing that was hard for you to do there is what is designed for. Well, mostly. > I'm not familar with sgmy (yet) so I'm probably not the best to answer that. > The PNG formats produced views similar to those that would be seen by a new > user. It was my intention to get as close as possible to what they would > see. If the would do that, then its a possibility. Except I just realized that it won't handle the colors, which IMHO are actually sort of important. So maybe that isn't such a great idea. (BTW I just treated SGML as a funny-looking HTML. ELNOTESng was my first project with SGML and DocBook, so let me know if you need another SGML newbie's perspective.) > I hope other formats can be produced since I've had a few requests for them > in the past. Assuming you are (or will be) using the DocProj infrastructure, then when you go to build the rendering from the SGML source, just do: % make FORMATS=pdf Some other valid and interesting values are "ps" and "txt". Note that FORMATS= is a list, so you can actually do something like: % make 'FORMATS=html pdf txt' > Where the documents reside is probably best decided by those more familar > with the doc project and what best suits the needs of new people. We should > get all the mileage possible out of them. Agree 100% with your last sentence. But I'm betting you also have some thoughts about how we do this. :-) Bruce. --==_Exmh_751432316P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7AY802MoxcVugUsMRAucoAJsF64JrnRBaVeCdGBwelAW7VjWbFwCdHdMB 0fchKurgxwF//6otYDF/HLA= =oMLl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_751432316P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message