Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:20:51 +0200 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with the automatic links Message-ID: <20010524132051.A25181@nathan.ruhr.de>
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--dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I've found two sets of problems while working on yet another round of FAQ markup improvements[1]. The first problem is a case of "well, don't do that": Using &man.foo.bar; inside <question> has intresting side effects for the TOCs: It ends the link to the question, inserts a link to the manapge and continues with normal text. Check question 20 in the networking chapter for a drastic example. Courtesy URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/networking.html Solution: Like I said earler: Well, don't do that. The neccessary patches are already in my version of the FAQ and will be committed "soon". The second problem is somewhat tricky: We have several entities for programs found in the ports collection. Using them results in a link of this form: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dimwheel&sektion=3D1 Unfortunately, using this links gives "Sorry, no data found for...". The same problem applies to the entities for X programs. The solution is a link of the form http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?\ query=3Dimwheel&sektion=3D1&manpath=3DFreeBSD+Ports Unfortunately, I'm not a stylesheet guru and have absolutely no idea how to change the stylesheets to add "&manpath=3DFreeBSD+Ports" to some entitie= s. As far as I can see, the current code simply forces every refentry into a link to man.cgi. So far, I had two possible ideas: a) Go back in time and use the old "1x" notation. The names of the entities would be &man.foo.1x;, resulting in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>foo</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1x</manvolnum></= citerefentry>=20 The code in the stylesheets would have to use the second char to add the right link to HTML version. In the other formats, the stylesheets would have to remove the second letter. b) Use &man.foo.1x; to generate an entity of the form: <citerefentry><refentrytitle>foo</refentrytitle><manvolnum class=3D"xfree">= 1</manvolnum></citerefentry>=20 And use the class parameter in the HTML version to create the correct link. I think b) is the better approach but I'd like to hear the opinions of our resident stylesheet gurus on that matter. /s/Udo [1] To answer the obvious question: Yes, I could have created one mega-patch containing all the various fixes. I'm using seperate patches to make the changes more transparent and to ease the work for the translation teams. Doing the change A twenty times and then change B twenty times is faster than doing fourty mixed changes. --=20 Schnell und schluepfrig wie geoeltes Ferkel auf Crack --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBOwzuk0Poh1XnT6hxAQFbXAP/RgxKNUor4lFkuggwyfXqgk+eTMk+cJbp P1lFx4nU7gYG3jstMzEpJhig0uENBWBOdBbDOBSZ1V46QrgpfzX3bzVS5oGTWOIw c+A6UUaO4D3hSdWqqm0TN8r84cVO4OI3LHrJUL9TZk4fxsrZGYzgNH16nTmZLSPl scxvSDZ+NuU= =byxG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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