From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 11 10:11:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BCC37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust38.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C780843F93 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 18soDu-000JOw-00; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:11:34 +0000 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:11:34 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: David Chavarria Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handbook Idea Message-ID: <20030311181134.GA74536@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , David Chavarria , FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message