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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 17:58:45 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Links within the Handbook
Message-ID:  <20020511165845.GB1231@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org>
References:  <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> > 1) Make symlinks for all the books and articles like we do now for the
> >    FAQ and handbook (this really sucks);
> > 
> > 2) Get wosch to redirect /FAQ and /handbook in httpd.conf instead of using
> >    symlinks, and expect everyone running a mirror to do the same (wooh, that
> >    bites);
> > 
> > 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) ?

Ceri

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