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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: doc-all collection? 
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> Unlike man pages which are intimately tied to specific pieces of
> code in FreeBSD, the FAQ and Handbook cut across versions and
> having 3 separate versions on 3 separate CVS branches was nothing
> more than a large headache.  They also required bringing in extra
> bloat (sgml tools) to the source tree and binary core binary
> distributions.

I considered the removal of the SGML tools a pity - I'd have liked to
be able to write man-pages in a more powerful form of markup later,
e.g. DocBook.  That way, integration between man-pages and the
handbook would probably be easier.  We can probably cross that bridge
when we come to it, though.

Eivind.