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From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Entities for manpages installed by ports
To: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
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> > How do I deal with references to manual pages
> installed by ports ?
> > Someone.  Please.  Help.

hi,

I think we need to re-structure the way we reference
to man pages from the docs.  We should make it in
such a way, that all the man pages that are supported
by /cgi/man.cgi can be referenced, let that be
NetBSD's
set or our own set of man pages.. or ports...

I am saying we should make a new tag called <man> or
something like <manref>.

For example:

<manref section="8" name="sysinstall" 
        base="FREEBSD44-REL">

The above tag would produce the following HTML:
<a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-RELEASE">

For the PDF, it would just produce: sysinstall(8)

I think this would be a great way to solve our
dillema ;)

Suggestions?

regards,

 - Hiten
 - <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.orG>

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