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To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
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Subject: Re: Building a page of installed software docs
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From: Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 19 Sep 1999 09:14:40 +0200
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Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> writes:

> 
> 
> On 15-Sep-99 Nik Clayton wrote:
> > Thinking about it, this should probably not be limited to just the HTML
> > documentation that's installed.  There's no reason why bzip2 couldn't
> > have a pkg/URLS file that looked something like
> > 
> >     ${PREFIX}/share/doc/bzip2/manual_toc.html:HTML:User manual
> >     ${PREFIX}/share/doc/bzip2/manual.ps:PS:User manual
> >     ${PREFIX}/share/doc/bzip2/manual.txt:TXT:User manual
> > 
> > which would turn in to
> > 
> >     <h3>archivers/bzip2</h3>
> > 
> >     <ul>
> >       <li>User Manual [<a href="file:/.../manual_toc.html">HTML</a>]
> >                       [<a href="file:/.../manual.txt">TXT</a>]
> >                       [<a href="file:/.../manual.ps">PS</a>]</li>
> >     </ul>
> 
> OK. I had a spare few minutes, so I threw together the following script :
> 
[...]
> 
> It goes through the /var/db/pkg directory, looking for the ports that have our
> new 'DOCS' file, which is in the format of :
> 
> FAQ txt /usr/local/share/doc/Sharity-Light/FAQ
> README txt /usr/local/share/doc/Sharity-Light/README
> 
> I made this file up for Sharity Light as an example. If the port has a docs
> file, then the script produces a nice set of links to each type of
> documentation.
> 
> Nik, is this what you had in mind?
> 
> Any comments gladly recieved!!
> 

Nice. I think that the delimiter character should be a colon or even
better a vertical bar (|), because it'll be fairly common to use
whitespace in the document title.

Regards,
	Slaven

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