Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 01:48:19 -0700 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG>, Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>, keramida@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (man page || manpage) => manual page Message-ID: <3CF738D3.4070205@pittgoth.com> References: <20020529214746.GA67346@hades.hell.gr> <p05111a1bb91affba8a28@[129.85.219.160]> <20020529183350.314b0f2a.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20020530081201.M64264@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: >On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:33:50PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >>Entities allow you to assign a name to some chunk of data, and >> >[...] > >>file. >> > >This bit's correct. > >>Our man tags are custom to the FreeBSD project, taking the user/reader >>to our version of the specified manual page. Many manual pages differ from >>operating system to operating system (for instance, drivers) and this >>lets us define a link to a man page search engine... >> >>This also differs in fact that, the man entity is not standard in >>html or DocBook for that matter (unless you define it), unlike the >>usual: © ™ that works in HTML and DocBook (others?) >> > >This bit isn't. > >The various entities that we use (&man., &a., &os., &rel., &gui., ...) >are purely to cut down the amount of typing the document author has to >do, and to try and ensure consistency between different documents. It's >got nothing to do with any links that might be automatically generated >in the documentation. > >N > Well, its sort of correct in the fact that, you can define your own entities... But I did get why the docproj uses em wrong ;) -- Tom (who's fighting with his new laptop and may be difficult to reach) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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