Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:59:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to do this? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950829005656.12626M@latte.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508290453.XAA11178@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, John Fieber wrote: > Chuck Robey writes: > > The sgmlfmt page says the sgmlfmt command takes two sets of flags, > > -format and -links, but doesn't explain what the -links are.. Could you > > either explain, or tell me I don't need them? > > Huh? It should say something. The -link option didn't exist in > the version that came with 2.0.5. Anyway... > > -links When used with the -html option, for each <label id="foo"> in the > document source sgmlfmt generates a symbolic link foo.html point- > ing to the numbered .html file containing the reference. Since > the number of the file containing a particular section can change > when a document is modified, this provides a convenient hook by > which separate documents can provide links into another document > without the links becoming invalid when the target document is > modified. When creating a symbolic link, any occurence of a > slash (/) in label is replaced with percent (%), while any oc- > curence of a space is replaced with an underscore (_). Ahh, I see, it's organized strangely. At the top of that section, it says "The -format options for output include the following:" so I kinda expected another heading for the -links option, not lumped in with the format options. Maybe I think oddly. > > Its very useful if you want to put these documents in a WWW > server and have links between them. > > -john > > == jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========================================== > == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============ > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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