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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:40:51 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs in DocBook
Message-ID:  <19990317084051.T429@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990316190350.A8688@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:03:50PM %2B0000
References:  <19990316112110.U429@lemis.com> <19990316190350.A8688@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 19:03:50 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:21:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> I've been going through the DocBook version of the handbook trying to
>> tidy it up for printing.  I've found a number of problems with lines
>> which are too long.  In many cases, it was easy enough to fix them,
>> but I'm not clear whether the commit freeze is still in effect.  If it
>> is, I think we should consider thawing it.
>
> Have you got patches?  I'll commit them ASAP.

I can get them.  I'll send them to you when I'm done.  But I hope that
by then you have allowed commit access to the handbook.  It has been
in effect for over a month now.  When do you plan to lift it?

>> The other problem I have is that the formatting seems to have
>> problems.  In particular, the <screen> and <programlisting> tags have
>> an annoying tendency to wrap where they shouldn't, even inserting
>> hyphens.  If they see a lone hyphen on a long line, they'll break
>> there regardless of position, so something like this:
> <snip>
>
> Any objection if I forward your message on to Norm Walsh, the
> stylesheet maintainer to get this looked at? 

Sure, good idea.

> Or do you have a solution in mind?

Not at this stage.

Greg
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