Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:49:12 -0400 From: "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20030522084912.B83238@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20030521102544.28331639.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>; from trhodes@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:25:44AM -0400 References: <200305202012.h4KKCnLI043890@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030520225417.X8403@freebsdmall.com> <20030521102544.28331639.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:25:44AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2003 22:54:17 -0700 > Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:12:49PM -0700, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Fix a screen tag in another part of the chapter. > > > > Why is this a fix? You inserted a huge gap between two closely > > related commands. You cd into a directory, then you run the make > > command specified. The two lines should be in one <screen>. > > > > - Murray > > > > Like this : > > > > - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd > > /usr/ports/<replaceable>directory</replaceable></userinput></screen> > > - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= \ > > + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd > > /usr/ports/<replaceable>directory</replaceable></userinput> > > +&prompt.root; <userinput>make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= \ > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ > > fetch</userinput></screen> > > > > > > The output looked horrible on my built version. The original version > wrapped it in one <screen> tag, and I hoped to make it look a little > better. Sorry. Some docs are ugly because what they document is ugly. Accuracy is far more important than appearance. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute OpenBSD: http://www.AbsoluteOpenBSD.com/
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