From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 30 10:29: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677AB37B479; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03441; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:29:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:29:04 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any comments? Message-ID: <20001030132904.A3369@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20001030090531.A2062@blackhelicopters.org> <20001030181408.A67168@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001030181408.A67168@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:14:08PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:14:08PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > Have you got any software in mind that would help autogenerate this? I'm > tempted to whip up a DTD that defines the format, and then write a little > script that autogenerates the HTML from that, which would make maintenance > a bit easier. I was going to do it in DocBook, because a) that's what the rest of the FDP uses, b) if it goes over well I'd like to donate it to the FDP, and c) I really need to learn DocBook. I'm not sure what use this would be in, say, PostScript[1], but it seems better to keep our options open. I was going to go through the FAQ and send-pr the section tags, so I could coherently link to particular tags... that's my only real prereq. > Before I do that, though, we need to define the problem a bit more. Will consider. > Of course, feel free to do this in plain HTML as well. I know, I know, you'll take any documentation you can get. :) [1] Anyone remember the old "Choose-your-own-Adventure" books? "You are standing at a command prompt. Your network card is broken. What do you do?" No, never mind, I'll shut up now. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message