From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 26 12: 4:39 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 DA98037BF35; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:04:33 -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 TAA20181; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:55:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:55:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Eric Ogren Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page for doc contributors? Message-ID: <20000726195505.C19989@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000725133022.B12969@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000725093500.A353@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000725093500.A353@earthlink.net>; from eogren@earthlink.net on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:35:00AM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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