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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 22:23:52 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: &current;/&stable; entities for consistent naming 
Message-ID:  <20010531052352.E356C3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105291730.f4THURD60201@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on "Tue, 29 May 2001 10:30:27 -0700"

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"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> > Attached is a patch which adds the entities to a new file,
> > share/sgml/freebsd.ent, and changes the Cutting Edge chapter of the
> > Handbook to use them.
> 
> I like this!
> 
> Question:  Do we have any namespace pollution issues here; i.e. should
> &current; be something like &os.current;?  Or is this not a factor?

It's probably of no technical concern, but I like
&os.(current|stable);, so I think we should use that.

Anybody else have any comments on this or shall I go ahead?

Thanks,

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

> 
> > I also added an &os; entity for the same
> > reasons as outlined above (although the inconsistencies here are much
> > less subtle).  The Relnotes already have &os;, which is where I got
> > the idea; and I think Bruce got it from mdoc(7).
> 
> Just for the record, I dreamed it up; I am too ignorant about mdoc(7) to
> take ideas from it, good as they are.  Originally I thought it'd be good
> for typesetting FreeBSD in other font or whatever.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce.
> 
> 
> 
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