From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 22:49:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B785D106567A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (mail-ew0-f21.google.com [209.85.219.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F5F8FC12 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so190843ewy.19 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:49:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.139.15 with SMTP id m15mr1940667ebd.69.1232837395360; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:49:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090124224237.GA96097@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <497B77C7.90001@telenix.org> <2a7894eb0901241353l56be13b4s9860b9e949bc9ec2@mail.gmail.com> <20090124224237.GA96097@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:49:55 -0800 Message-ID: <2a7894eb0901241449y49391f6aj6414875e8781ea4@mail.gmail.com> From: Murray Stokely To: Frank Shute , Murray Stokely , Chuck Robey , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: text formatting tools. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:49:57 -0000 Yea, that is a good point. The one last thing I meant to add was that in general I think we have plenty of people in the doc project that can work to render the documentation and work on the stylesheets and presentation and such. What we really need is simply more authors. Text can be submitted in plain text with no markup at all in groff, xml, or anything else through the mailing lists or PR database. There are plenty of volunteers that can mark up the text and get it committed. - Murray On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > Another advantage of XML is greater familiarity with the toolset > amongst the target authorship. > > I dare say a number of people have tackled the similar HTML/XHTML/CSS > for authoring on the www, whereas few have tackled a manpage or > suchlike. > > With regards a huge toolset, for the FreeBSD docs you don't need TeX > to produce the HTML version. The HTML can also always be converted to > postscript using, for example, Firefox for hardcopy. > > Apologies for the big snip but I didn't particularly want to reply to > any one point & wanted to avoid redundancy. > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > >