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Date:      Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:21:00 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "too many notes" 
Message-ID:  <318.809450460@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 1995 09:49:48 CDT." <199508261449.JAA03995@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> 

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> Ah.  You missed it.  Maybe it will need to be more explicit.  In
> a WWW browser, everything in this header is a link except

Aha!  That sounds good!

> SGML marked sections can be used for such purposes.  Marked
> sections behave essentially like an #ifdef FOO ... #endif.  They
> could be used for multi-lingual purposes.  They could also be
> used to generate subsets of the handbook, such as the install
> documents that go on the boot floppy.  I'll have to scratch my
> head a couple minutes to figure out the best way to do this.

I am rather interested in what you find out!  The boot floppy doc
is something we really need to think about pretty soon..

> It makes little sense to have both ASCII and HTML on the install
> disk since you can probably write a function to program to do
> minimal HTML formatting in less space.  Since the HTML from the
> handbook is machine generated, error handling need not be as
> robust as for a general purpose browser.  Heck, you could
> probably even get it to follow simple links to other html files.

Hmmmmm.  Anyone care to write such a small "mini-HTML" brower that
uses ncurses and is available to me as a stand-alone function? :-)

					Jordan



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