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_at_ provide me a location where to push them. > > > > Unless anyone on doceng_at_ 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
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