Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:18:12 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FBSD Doc project <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: authors.ent and developers.ent ? Message-ID: <5096A354.9070701@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20121104165934.GB1343@glenbarber.us> References: <5095AF77.2070908@freebsd.org> <20121104165934.GB1343@glenbarber.us>
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On 04-11-2012 17:59, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:57:43AM +0100, René Ladan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> author entities are defined both in authors.ent (with email address) and >> developers.ent (without email address). The latter is used in e.g. >> htdocs/administration.xml, resulting in cumbersome lines like >> >> <li>&a.name; <<a >> href="mailto:name@FreeBSD.org">name@FreeBSD.org</a>></li> >> >> where just >> >> <li>&a.name;</li> would be clearer. >> >> So would there be some way to merge these two files (both docbook-wise >> and content-wise) to avoid having to maintain two files and avoiding >> cumbersome lines? >> > I'm a bit baffled by this, to be honest. Oops.. > Perhaps we can merge these files together, and have each developer > entity consist of two lines, one for name only, one for name + email? > > Something like this, maybe? > > <!ENTITY a.gjb.name "Glen Barber"> > <!ENTITY a.gjb.email "&a.gjb.name <email>gjb@FreeBSD.org</email>"> > > This would allow us to keep the current multi-format entries, and > consolidate them into one file. > > Thoughts? That would be a start. What about an defining a third entity (not sure about the name...) <!ENTITY a.rene.hrefmail "&a.rene.name; <<a href=mailto:rene@FreeBSD.org">rene@FreeBSD.org</a>>"> I think we could just leave &a.rene.name; as &a.rene; and adjust &a.rene.email; and &a.rene.hrefmail; accordingly. > Glen > > PS: That idea is conceptual, I haven't actually tried this change. > This is conceptual too. René
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