Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:45:49 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Adding labels to chapters for xref Message-ID: <20020819234549.GC347@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <20020815213125.A26602@angelica.unixdaemons.com> References: <20020815213125.A26602@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
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On Thursday, August 15, 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: > I have been writing soem stuff on newbus' for the Developer-Handbook, > and came across a little problem; when <xref linkend="chapid"> is used, > we get "Chapter N" in the output. So, I thought I (quick) fix this > problem, by adding 'xreflabel' attributes to all the chapters. > > We can refer to the chapters, much more sensibly this way IMHO. The > delta for the developers-handbook is attached with this mail, and it is > also available at: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/work/xreflabels.patch Do we want to refer to chapters by title rather than by than number? This could cause problems in the print versions. If we do, I think that a more sensible way to go about doing this is to modify the stylesheet to generate the xreflabels from the contents of <title>. > NOTE: I have not tried to test this patch; although my eyes could not > find any problems with it. One reason for this is, my doc toolchain is > seriously broken, and to build developers-handbook, IT TAKES AGES on a > slow p166 box. `make lint' is your friend. -- Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org/ TrustedBSD Project http://www.TrustedBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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