From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 29 3:35: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7618D15524; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 03:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA87088; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:34:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:34:27 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: nclayton@lehman.com Cc: Kris Kennaway , Nik Clayton , current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete In-Reply-To: <19990329122223.D14492@lehman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > Word .doc support is in the pipeline as well, probably for the end of > > > this week too (I've now given some money to the evil empire so I can > > > test the output myself). > > > > Why? We can use StarOffice 5.0x, after all. > > * Not if you're on a 2.2-stable system. Don't mock, because I still am, > until I find the time to upgrade. At least, I could never get it to work > solidly for any length of time. I know there have been updates, but > there's only so many times I'm prepared to download it. I meant use StarOffice to test out the Office .docs. > > * People who haven't yet switched to using FreeBSD can get a reasonably > good printed copy of the documentation (at the moment just the Handbook, > but eventually all the docs) on a Windows platform. > > * My accountant likes various bits and pieces to be entered in to their > home grown Access DB. So I needed to get hold of Office anyway (and as > an aside, the ODBC driver for Postgres works very nicely). > > > > Next on the list will be whatever internal format the Palm Pilot uses. > > > I imagine this won't be too useful for the Handbook, but will probably > > > be quite handy for the FAQ. . . > > > > Do you mean the Memo format or the Doc format? I hope you mean Doc... It > > might not even be worth it to do this, since a very nice, fast browser > > (Palmscape) has been around for a while on the Palm, and an offline browser > > called Plucker. > > I don't know yet, I need to get a Pilot :-) I'm open to recommendations, > and/or pointers to specifications for the format. Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out ports/palm/pilot_makedoc > > And if there are any programmers out there looking for something to do, > this could be quite a nice task. > > N > -- > --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- > --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- > --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message