Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:33:33 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/56729: [patch] artciles/pr-guidelines: explain meaning of MFC Message-ID: <20030912103331.GA388@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030912093846.GK76802@submonkey.net> References: <200309120920.h8C9KGZ8091585@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030912093107.GH635@unixpages.org> <20030912093846.GK76802@submonkey.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2003.09.12 10:38:46 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > > > This is already covered in the FAQ. I think if anything, a link should > > > > suffice. > > > > > > I agree that it doesn't need to be duplicated in that article (else we'd be > > > pretty much doing it in every article). > > > > > > Perhaps we should have a FreeBSD glossary, where all relevant acronyms and > > > terms are explained. This could then be easily included at the end of > > > printed works, etc. I'd be prepared to make a start on it, but I'd need > > > help for sure. > > > > Good idea, I'd also like to see something like this. I'm not very familiar > > with the docbook infrastructure, what would be the best way to implement it? > > I'm not sure yet. Doubtless there is already a method for doing it, but > I'll need to check what the relevant elements, etc. are when I get home. I also think this is a good idea. As for doing it, I would look at how the bookinfo.legalnotice entity is defined. Basically : The file doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/bookinfo.ent contains : <!ENTITY bookinfo.legalnotice SYSTEM "legalnotice.sgml"> And then doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/legalnotice.sgml is the actual text which is just included using "&bookinfo.legalnotice;". I think it would be fairly simple to do something like this for a glossary. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YaD7h9pcDSc1mlERAnMlAJ9+tOX5wA6OF7t0cG2JTlpAsB9k9gCcCIAI BznYjfwTBg4ZtIzUw9K821w= =dpUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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