Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:35:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Auto generated hardware notes Message-ID: <20040618063553.GA8235@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040617195633.GG907@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:56:33PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > Inspired by NetBSD I have created a HARDWARE section in section 4 manual > pages. This section will then be extracted on put in to the hardware > notes. > Looks great from the mdoc(7) perspective, please go ahead. > The main advantage to this model is that if the manual page is updated > the hardware notes are updated, so there is no need for duplicate work. > The main disadvantage is that since the same text has to be used both in > the manual page and in the hardware notes for text structure (see sample > generated version for what I mean) is not perfect for the hardware > notes. > [...] > The main unresolved issue for me is translation. Since most of the text > is now extracted directly from manual pages (which only exists in > English and Japaneese) I'm not really sure how to deal with this nicely. > I may be blind, but I don't see a real problem here. Whenever a manpage gets updated, the English version of hardware notes gets updated, and translators could pick it up easily, and add/change the necessary translation. If only list of supported hardware is changed, this will be even easier. Another approach would be for Japanese hardware notes to convert section 4 manpages to this new syntax with HARDWARE section, and then scan Japanese manpages using your script. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA0o1JqRfpzJluFF4RAkygAJ9cTyBOSPBy4zf9pbxXzfSGYOafGQCfZNkO 8+LEckKaywpyJ7BD8LxSHr0= =xaKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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