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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2017 14:22:01 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        tj <tj@enoti.me>
Cc:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, arch@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, doceng@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The futur of the roff toolchain
Message-ID:  <20170525122201.7v5zfspu35a3qx47@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170525121251.GB55153@tom-desk.erg.abdn.ac.uk>
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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 01:12:51PM +0100, tj wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:45:19AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > > No the problem left is documentations available in share/doc.
> > > >=20
> > > > I would like to push them elsewhere. Those documents are mostly use=
ful for
> > > > historical reason (hence we want to keep them) but not really for d=
aily 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 docum=
ents has not
> > > > be written for a ascii/text target but more for a PDF/html view - u=
sing pic(1)
> > > > for example)
> > > >=20
> > > > A plan was to push as sources in the svn doc repository and continu=
e 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 m=
arkup to make
> > > > the rendering of those documents clean (also meaning almost noone s=
hould read
> > > > them considering some were not really readable).
> > > >=20
> > > > What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once a=
nd push them
> > > > somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation w=
ebsite.
> > > > Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them.
> > > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 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/.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Thank you,
> >=20
> > For the record I have pushed the generated PDF:
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pdfdocs/
> >=20
> > The have been built with a modern groff and I forced the embedded fonts=
 for all
> > fonts used.
> >=20
>=20
> Multicolumn doesn't render correct in firefox for this:
>=20
> https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pdfdocs/papers/timecounter.pdf
>=20
> but is fine for this:
>=20
> https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pdfdocs/papers/devfs.pdf
>=20
Good catch thanks! I will see what I can do

Bapt

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