Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:23 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete Message-ID: <19990329122223.D14492@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903290558360.86726-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian Feldman on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500 References: <19990329105741.L23968@lehman.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903290558360.86726-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
> > Word .doc support is in the pipeline as well, probably for the end of
> > this week too (I've now given some money to the evil empire so I can
> > test the output myself).
>
> Why? We can use StarOffice 5.0x, after all.
* Not if you're on a 2.2-stable system. Don't mock, because I still am,
until I find the time to upgrade. At least, I could never get it to work
solidly for any length of time. I know there have been updates, but
there's only so many times I'm prepared to download it.
* People who haven't yet switched to using FreeBSD can get a reasonably
good printed copy of the documentation (at the moment just the Handbook,
but eventually all the docs) on a Windows platform.
* My accountant likes various bits and pieces to be entered in to their
home grown Access DB. So I needed to get hold of Office anyway (and as
an aside, the ODBC driver for Postgres works very nicely).
> > Next on the list will be whatever internal format the Palm Pilot uses.
> > I imagine this won't be too useful for the Handbook, but will probably
> > be quite handy for the FAQ. . .
>
> Do you mean the Memo format or the Doc format? I hope you mean Doc... It
> might not even be worth it to do this, since a very nice, fast browser
> (Palmscape) has been around for a while on the Palm, and an offline browser
> called Plucker.
I don't know yet, I need to get a Pilot :-) I'm open to recommendations,
and/or pointers to specifications for the format.
And if there are any programmers out there looking for something to do,
this could be quite a nice task.
N
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