Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:11:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Norman Man <nhcman@spark.net.hk>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error handbook.pdf file Message-ID: <20010228231112.C639@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200102280517.f1S5HI512121@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:17:18PM -0800 References: <3A96108E.DE0B0B84@spark.net.hk> <20010226190232.A367@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010226220916.A4088@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200102262304.f1QN4ug94944@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010226232135.A5348@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200102270000.f1R00mX95874@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010227094255.A1425@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200102280517.f1S5HI512121@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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--Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:17:18PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > I'm wondering...heck, it's only software, right? So if there's some=20 > hardcoded limit, we can figure out what it is, and patch it to Do The=20 > Right Thing (TM). >=20 > Of course I haven't looked at the code so what do I know? And I'm not=20 > volunteering to do it either. :-p Thanks. I'm going nowhere the TeX code. . . > > Two choices (I think). > >=20 > > 1. Use something like ps2pdf to convert the Handbook to PDF. > >=20 > > Nice, simple, and means that we lose all the hyperlinks in the PDF > > file, which I'd rather avoid if possible. >=20 > Yep. That's what I've done in the short term. > > 2. Split the Handbook up. > >=20 > > I've been wanting to do this for a while anyway. The easiest way > > to do this would probably be to turn each <part> in to a book in > > its own right. The more complicated way would be to hive out > > certain chapters, "The FreeBSD Printing Book", "The FreeBSD > > Security Book", and so on. >=20 > My first reaction is that we'd lose the ability the hyperlink between=20 > the different books, and that references between sections/parts of the=20 > different books might be kind of hard. In theory you can do this with the olink element. I'm not entirely sure how it's all supposed to hang together though. There are about 350 intradocument links in the Handbook. I don't know how many of those cross chapters though, or how many of them would cross any sectional boundaries that we might want to put in place. > I'm actually leaning towards #1, since I can't remember Acrobat Reader=20 > handling the hyperlinks in PDF correctly anyways (well, it doesn't for=20 > RELNOTESng). If you've got a table of contents that should be nicely hyperlinked (I use acroread4, and it works there), and any internal document links should work as well -- it's always worked for me. N --=20 Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqdhY8ACgkQk6gHZCw343XacwCfbuFqaxhFCHy6+caaz7DGYByW kiAAnRJvgoAmpOmWK5o1+H/dnnGj/MaN =igwV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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