Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:34:27 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: nclayton@lehman.com 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: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903290633020.87053-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990329122223.D14492@lehman.com>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 nclayton@lehman.com wrote:
> 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.
I meant use StarOffice to test out the Office .docs.
>
> * 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.
Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out
ports/palm/pilot_makedoc
>
> 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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