From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 26 4: 6:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from elixir.e.kth.se (elixir.e.kth.se [130.237.48.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B6E37B808; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 04:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaj@e.kth.se) Received: from alumoklyuchevskit.e.kth.se (alumoklyuchevskit.e.kth.se [130.237.48.15]) by elixir.e.kth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA22144; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:05:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kaj@localhost) by alumoklyuchevskit.e.kth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA08159; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:05:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: alumoklyuchevskit.e.kth.se: kaj set sender to kaj@e.kth.se using -f To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Indexing and glossary References: <20000625195647.F470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> From: Rasmus Kaj Cc: Rasmus Kaj Organization: Raditex AB - http://Raditex.se/ Date: 26 Jun 2000 13:05:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:56:47 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "NC" == Nik Clayton writes: NC> In fact, we can probably take this a step further -- all the NC> documentation projects are going to need a glossary, and why try and NC> reinvent the wheel each time? NC> Someone (probably us) should start a free glossary project. Each NC> documentation project can submit definitions to it, and can pick and NC> choose definitions from other projects as necessary. Anyone want to NC> pick this idea up and run with it? How would this new project differ from FOLDOC [1] (Free OnLine Dictionary Of Computing) ? Or might FOLDOC be a good project to join forces with on this? [1] http://www.InstantWeb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?FOLDOC -- Rasmus Kaj -------------------- rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~kaj/ \ Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind!!! \------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex.se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message