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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:18:13 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/56729: [patch] artciles/pr-guidelines: explain meaning of MFC
Message-ID:  <20030912111813.GA75659@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030912103331.GA388@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:33:33PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.09.12 10:38:46 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  >  This is already covered in the FAQ.  I think if anything, a lin=
k should
> > > >  >  suffice.
> > > > =20
> > > >  I agree that it doesn't need to be duplicated in that article (els=
e we'd be
> > > >  pretty much doing it in every article).
> > > > =20
> > > >  Perhaps we should have a FreeBSD glossary, where all relevant acro=
nyms and
> > > >  terms are explained.  This could then be easily included at the en=
d of
> > > >  printed works, etc.  I'd be prepared to make a start on it, but I'=
d need
> > > >  help for sure.
> > >=20
> > > Good idea, I'd also like to see something like this.  I'm not very fa=
miliar
> > > with the docbook infrastructure, what would be the best way to implem=
ent it?
> >=20
> > I'm not sure yet.  Doubtless there is already a method for doing it, but
> > I'll need to check what the relevant elements, etc. are when I get home.
>=20
> I also think this is a good idea.
>=20
> As for doing it, I would look at how the bookinfo.legalnotice entity is
> defined.  Basically :
>=20
> The file doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/bookinfo.ent contains :
>=20
> <!ENTITY bookinfo.legalnotice SYSTEM "legalnotice.sgml">
>=20
> And then doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/legalnotice.sgml is the actual
> text which is just included using "&bookinfo.legalnotice;".
>=20
> I think it would be fairly simple to do something like this for a
> glossary.

Yeah, those are the lines I was thinking along.
My reference to "relevant elements" was that there are very likely <glossar=
y>
elements or similar already, which we can make use of.

Ceri
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