Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 07:15:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Cc: doc@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "too many notes" Message-ID: <117.809446519@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 1995 09:06:08 CDT." <199508261406.JAA03926@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> Finally, things can be helped somewhat by providing better > navigation controls which I will work on (after I figure out some > cryptic variable names I neglected to document :). Namely, and a > line at the top showing where you are: > > FreeBSD Handbook > Installing FreeBSD : Supported Configurations : Ethernet Cards > <i>Previous</i>: Disk Controllers > <i>Next</i>: Miscellaneous And the Up, right? Let's not forget the Up. :-) > > We could also probably stand to collapse some of the chapters together > > so as to have more material easily accessible in one place, but that's > > up to John. > > By all means make suggestions as to which! OK, I'm going on a general review craze in there soon, so let's see. I need to also look at the fact that much of sysinstall/help/<lang>/... has become part of the handbook! Argh, two copies at once and in multiple languages, at that! That reminds me, we have no top level switch on the pages for selecting the language you want them in, but I suppose we can get to that later when we figure out just what the heck we're going to do with the whole multi-lingual thing. It's not exactly a _small_ issue, mind you, and we've probably put it off a little longer that we should have even now. Far better would be to scoop all the sysinstall/help/<lang>/... files straight into the handbook with the appropriate edits. Then we can hack a bit on the release tools to stick compressed ascii versions of the desired manuals on the install floppies. Sure and as I'd like to stick the HTML versions on there too, of course, but I don't think that I'm going to manage to get Lynx on the boot floppy! Maybe on the root floppy, maybe.. Hmmmmmmm! :-) That'd still leave at least a few "intro" docs in ASCII though, just to tide the user through enough screens to *get* the root floppy loaded. Jordan
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