From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 14 16:58:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4592737C25D for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA47253; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:30:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:30:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jonathan Michaels Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook Illustrations Message-ID: <20000615003005.A46703@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000614124904.B25244@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000614124904.B25244@phoenix.welearn.com.au>; from jon@welearn.com.au on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:49:09PM +1000 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:49:09PM +1000, Jonathan Michaels wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:23:32PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Are there any plans to replace the ASCII art in the FreeBSD Handbook > > with simple xfig diagrams? The ASCII looks really out of place in the > > printed (PostScript) version of the handbook that was recently > > published. > > With a few simple changes to the makefile and freebsd.dsl we could > > pass a variable with the -V option to [Open]Jade and let the DSSSL code > > decide whether to display the graphic (HTML or PostScript output) or the > > ASCII figure (Text output). > > > Does this sounds like a logical way to solve the problem? > > not if thier is not a problem .. lots of people still use text > only consoles. so if your plan is to add functionality, as in > make the new 'artwork' a part of teh pdf and or ps editions > while still leaving the 'ascii art' in the html and ascii > (latin?) text versions of the document. We can (and will) do that. % alias | grep netscape netscape xterm -geometry =120x50 -e w3m http://localhost/ N -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message