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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