From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 22 13:53:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE1B37B401; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A82C43FBF; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:53:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a019.otenet.gr [212.205.215.19]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MLr5h1011166; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:53:06 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MLr5Gg058246; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:53:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2MLr53b058245; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:53:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:53:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: re@FreeBSD.org Subject: ulink elements and URL duplication in the docs Message-ID: <20030322215305.GB57850@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (terpsi) 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 --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The element in SGML doesn't need to have any content apart =66rom a URL=3D"" attribute. There are currently many places where lines look awful because a long URL is include twice(!) in the running text of a document, i.e. See http://www.foobar.net= /some/long/path/here/ This is equivalent to: See which contains the URL only once, saving some (precious most of the time) horizontal space and reducing the potential for mistakes when someone edits the URL in one of those places and forgets the other, or makes a mistake while editing the same text twice. There's a relatively large diff I tested a few moments ago through a full build of doc/ at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~keramida/diff/_03.ulink.patch Do you all think it's ok to make the changes of that diff? If yes, is it ok to do it now, or should I just wait for a date after 4.8-RELEASE to avoid making large changes at this point in time? - Giorgos --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+fNtB1g+UGjGGA7YRAu9MAJ0f5D7p2ZY19mi+42l7LmG0UeY+2QCfRrL4 PfiL8JHjFWNNecdvwjfvDME= =rPlK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message