From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Nov 22 06:44:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA08602 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 06:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from saffron.fsl.noaa.gov (saffron.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.253.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA08593 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 06:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kelly@fsl.noaa.gov) Received: from fsl.noaa.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saffron.fsl.noaa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02749; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:43:56 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3476EFAC.11EC5EA4@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:43:56 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA/CIRA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Lundy CC: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive References: <199711220407.EAA149800@out2.ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If the entire FreeBSD handbook was available in an Archive--both Html and > plain ascii text, I feel that a larger quantity of people would be passed a > copy to read, or either print it out. This is a good idea. Sometimes when you're after some specific bit of information, there's nothing quite like a grep through the entire handbook, and without having to be online to use the web search. Actually, something that would help FreeBSD's professional presence is a PDF version of the handbook. Has anyone made the latex version, used some nice fonts, cleaned it up here and there, and tried running a free PDF creator? (This is something I definitely could've used yesterday while preparing a portfolio of work I've done (I wanted to include the printing chapter from the handbook).) --Sean