From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 26 08:21:11 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA20886 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:21:11 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA20880 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:21:08 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA00320; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:21:00 -0700 To: John Fieber cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "too many notes" In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 1995 09:49:48 CDT." <199508261449.JAA03995@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:21:00 -0700 Message-ID: <318.809450460@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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