From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 13 3:15: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4232F14DC1; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 03:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA60761; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:32:52 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA15934; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:07:42 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:07:42 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: John Baldwin Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: branch vs. osversion* (was: Re: "ze" and "zp" drivers removed...) Message-ID: <20000113010742.I8876@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991210161641.G85568@lucifer.bart.nl> <199912101525.KAA49307@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199912101525.KAA49307@server.baldwin.cx>; from John Baldwin on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:25:16AM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Ploughing through my unread mail archives ] On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:25:16AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Last time I talked this over with Nik we came to some sort of id="" like > > argument to a tag which would be os="". Yeah. osversionmin, osversionmax, and osversionin (which was caused osversionequal in the original proposal -- osversionin could take a comma separated list of versions, for example). > I'm also worried about readability. If there are lots of pieces that get cut > out, then you are going to have a document that abruptly stops and starts in > some places instead of flowing. While these attributes could be used on paragraphs, or smaller elements, generally I expect we'll only be using them for notes or similar. So in this precise example we might pull out this entire section as necessary, instead of just removing a sentence or two. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message