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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. > > > > 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/ascii 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) > > > > 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 bit and > > while working on heirloom doctools import I had to fix a bunch of markup to make > > the rendering of those documents clean (also meaning almost noone should read > > them considering some were not really readable). > > > > What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and push them > > somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website. > > Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them. > > > > 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/. > 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEgOTj3suS2urGXVU3Y4mL3PG3PloFAlkmyOQACgkQY4mL3PG3 PlqUURAAs8gSIXEud08R9TeaN0MQRSPBkKuApTnY9ZkvHoN6Sm2LyJ1MkFuUyXpK bfdeYIHZT5InIWEdfNS9fTu0YzwyiGfwk+mIkz7D2wRjaIrbfci+OWY7Xy8G/ng3 WfCQqAXyujdoR2KcXam7+8VpQ9o0a9I7WKWnDyVEbPtjJjX5PlHGV1Olt9+0LbTd 9bEEOTN1AKuZDDswX5pDDRZdnK4DkwBhm44/HswRue8p15Vv1xAIPsTmvgToQ4Xe PerBcy7czqkMwNj2cjRxCPModkdSWuvVQL09iwtu8T/3+6nGfkeyYwZ4WTW/wOCq N4e6TPytBfoSp8jhlxq0hcgSSlcW6ily5k8DlIQFI0IBJZGDpJobAcVtpPDl+P8V dmUnmdmRaa0Qxu+InpRP1hZFxxdBBoHPvalq/sSfy+mr9UnhEl25qrhVr5W8JqNF gTN9RKgz2rW8bxTQr35rouUZs2iwQ3d/LGI6U6VXqEPMiyJ+VJCjFogrE5wPFI/k lb68Y1qdwaOUsg+iaYDKxNFvsA3TP2PupUs5WEvAmEh/umPJXixLXvtk+gAXKiHF nNngW9olRvWrkA9SAYQRa2udAD30qciUTmjalNxnL8NEnXv3t8J7Dm9Q0wJ+ymNP B6QsFChLGuq4sXYQVebSeqGznQz3ow0mUqBgIZ6fCgfbLs8r5RY= =Nxns -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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