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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2017 14:07:00 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, doceng@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The futur of the roff toolchain
Message-ID:  <20170525120629.kv2bi4yjtzcegx4e@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170525114519.GB17188@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> <20170525114519.GB17188@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:45:19AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > No the problem left is documentations available in share/doc.
> >=20
> > I would like to push them elsewhere. Those documents are mostly useful =
for
> > historical reason (hence we want to keep them) but not really for daily=
 use of
> > modern FreeBSD.
> > Another issue with those documentation, they are installed as text/asci=
i version
> > in base, which makes most of them not really readable (as the documents=
 has not
> > be written for a ascii/text target but more for a PDF/html view - using=
 pic(1)
> > for example)
> >=20
> > A plan was to push as sources in the svn doc repository and continue to=
 build
> > them. This approach also have an issue: over the time roff evolved a bi=
t and
> > while working on heirloom doctools import I had to fix a bunch of marku=
p to make
> > the rendering of those documents clean (also meaning almost noone shoul=
d read
> > them considering some were not really readable).
> >=20
> > What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and p=
ush them
> > somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation websi=
te.
> > Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them.
> >=20
>=20
> Unless anyone on doceng@ objects within the next three days, I will
> create a new directory for the PDFs under doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/.
>=20

Thank you,

For the record I have pushed the generated PDF:
https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pdfdocs/

The have been built with a modern groff and I forced the embedded fonts for=
 all
fonts used.

Best regards,
Bapt

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