From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 5 19:11: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759E637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g55IQXt43642; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:26:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:26:32 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Ross Lippert Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man refs, deCSS disclaimer, merging with sound chapter Message-ID: <20020605192632.C39690@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200206051317.GAA11363@eskimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200206051317.GAA11363@eskimo.com>; from ripper@eskimo.com on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:17:54AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:17:54AM -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: > 1) man refs > Currently the only manrefs I'm making are XFree86 4.X, which is a > port, so from what I can tell, if I just put an entity in the > share/sgml/man-refs.ent the build will fail on system where the port > isn't installed. I could remove them, I guess. If I get no feedback > on this, I will. Nope. The entity refs work irrespective of whether or not the port is installed. So use them :-) > 2) deCSS disclaimer > Currently I footnote the use of the WITH_DVD option in building > mplayer, which causes it to build mplayer with deCSS support. I'm in > the US, where the legality of using such a binary is dubious. Other > webpages on video I have seen opt for various disclaimers about this > so as not to get shut down. I'd certainly not want a nasty letter to > arrive at freebsd.org demanding that the online-handbook be taken > down. If I get no feedback on this I will remove the empty footnote > and not worry about it. I'd say leave it as a footnote. > 3) sound chapter > The current sound chapter contains four sections on setting up sound > and getting various applications to work. If we go with the original > wording of the PR, then I should change this to a chapter on > multimedia (which involves changing a directory-name within the CVS > archive -- something I always thought was best done with care to > ensure proper tracking), merging the video playback chapter I have > into it such that sound becomes one section and video playback becomes > another (which various promotions of sect{n}'s to sect{n+1}'s and > perhaps some minor reworking of other peoples "territory"), and > finally a PR perhaps left open for video capture (which I think is > fillable if one has the right toys). A meta-synopsis needs to be made > for the resulting multimedia chapter. Given the messiness of merging, > and of ensuring good tracking by CVS, I'm ambivalent about which way > this one should go: add or merge. A chapter on multimedia? How about a complete top level section, with chapters for video, audio, DVD playback, CD playback, and so on? Or are some of those not likely to generate a full chapters worth of content? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8/lfYk6gHZCw343URAiGyAJ4x5FPt/KKpSzZJjk1dS1haoo+vfQCcCCVm 4TFejvpeqRc99qawlcTjwvw= =e4eb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message