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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:11:34 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chavarria <davidc@huyett.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Handbook Idea
Message-ID:  <20030311181134.GA74536@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <KAEAKMACDAGFNDDHIBJIEEEGCAAA.davidc@huyett.com>
References:  <KAEAKMACDAGFNDDHIBJIEEEGCAAA.davidc@huyett.com>

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:19:36AM -0600, David Chavarria wrote:
> I've recently downloaded and installed FreeBSD 4.7 using the handbook, and
> am continuing to read it.  I was able to download a postscript and make it a
> PDF document, the only thing wrong were the margins, otherwise it's fine.
> I'm on a W2000 machine.
> 
> Anyway, I thought that a PDF with navigation could be beneficial to users,
> bookmarks could be added and links from the index.  I'm not sure if this
> would work across all platforms, but I'd be willing to help if you think
> it's a good idea or would like to try a test chapter.

Hi David,

What we need for that is some way of generating those bookmarks from the
SGML; the handbook is rebuilt from SGML on a nightly basis.

I believe that some progress has been reported in this area, although I
forget who made that report...

> I think FreeBSD is great so far, will help me learn a lot, and since I
> really can't contribute with code or with documentation, I'd like to
> contribute by doing something I know how to do.

We appreciate it.

Ceri
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