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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP how-to available here! Date: 27 Dec 1996 20:05:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5a1a66$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <591h16$kue@nntp.interaccess.com> <59uabf$c91@uriah.heep.sax.de> <59v617$af4$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33214 reyes01@ibm.net wrote: > >Great! Would you perchance be willing to contribute this in SGML, > >too, so it can become a part of the handbook? > > I think that we need to add some info on the handbook on how to submit > documents and some basic info on SGML. I recall once I wanted to help with > the documentation project and I didn't get very far because I did not know > SGML and there isn't much online anyway. There is practically nothing > in the handbook which indicates how/where to send contributions. Yes. You should probably approach doc@freebsd.org for this. > cc to FreeBSD doc ...ah ok, you did. > What I suggest is that in the handbook we add: > -A few basic sample SGML pages so people can use them as guide > -Where existing documents are so people can FTP them to study them and > modify them. > -What are the programs one need to use to validate/parse (or whatever one > needs to do with SGML). Just what i do if i write a new handbook chapter is: cvs co handbook cd handbook <edit what i like, using the existing stuff as templates> make FORMATS=html <pick up handbook.html with my browser, re-edit as needed> But agreed, a little more explanation would help. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)