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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 00:44:57 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Links within the Handbook
Message-ID:  <20020511214456.GH16174@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020511165845.GB1231@submonkey.net>
References:  <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org> <20020511165845.GB1231@submonkey.net>

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On 2002-05-11 17:58, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > >
> > > 3) Change all of these ulinks so that they're absolute and not relative,
> > >    and then head back into doc/en_US..., and expect translators to fix
> > >    this themselves when they do a translation (ouch).
> > >
> > > I think 3 is the closest to what we'll eventually need to do, but all three
> > > suck in different ways.
> >
> > In addition, #3 is the only one that isn't broken for printed output.  I
> > have this dim recollection of someone spending cycles on the "relative
> > URLs vs. printed output" problem before, but I am not sure what
> > happened.
>
> Call me stupid, but how do ulinks affect printed output (I assume you mean
> PDF) ?

I am also very concerned about the links of formatted documents that
one stores under /usr/share/doc/<language>/.  What would the effect of
converting all <ulink>s to absolute paths be for these?

- Giorgos


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