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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:55:05 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Page for doc contributors?
Message-ID:  <20000726195505.C19989@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000725093500.A353@earthlink.net>; from eogren@earthlink.net on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:35:00AM -0400
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:35:00AM -0400, Eric Ogren wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:30:22PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > We are, but we're trying to replace it with the correct DocBook markup so
> > the 'blurb' can be generated (or supressed, or used to generate a big 
> > "Table of contributors") automatically.
> 
> OK, wasn't aware of that.

Any assistance gratefully appreciated.

> > Sadly, I haven't written the DSSSL to do this (Formatting Barbie: DSSSL is
> > hard), and neither has anyone else. . .
> 
> Every time I look at DSSSL, I get scared. :) 

It's not too hard.  The description in the DuckBook helps, as do Norm's
stylesheets.  I don't think I've written anything from scratch yet, it's
all been cribbed from various sources.

> > >  This does still leave the FAQ though; do we want to include
> > > "This question submitted by X" at the bottom of a bunch of questions
> > > if somebody puts it there (I don't know if anybody does this or not),
> > 
> > I'd really rather not.  I'm still somewhat put out by dcs' insistence on
> > a 'copyright' notice on the "How many committers does it take to screw
> > in a lightbulb" question in there.
> 
> Exactly, that was my point. If somebody wants credit for their FAQ
> question, what do we do?

Stick it in an *Info element for the time being.  If they really want to
see their name in lights then perhaps they'll be motivated to write the
necessary chunks of DSSSL. . .

N
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