cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:33:21AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:50:20AM -0400, Michael W . Lucas wrote:
> > Short answer:
> > 
> > The FAQ and the Handbook have different goals.  The FAQ is supposed to
> > be brief and q&a oriented.  Instead, it's full of brief tutorials that
> > need to be integrated into the Handbook.
> > 
> > Stuff like "why did I upgrade to -stable and get -rc?" belongs in the
> > FAQ.
> 
> I have a cunning plan, for which I currently have no time.  It goes like
> this:
> 
> Put a Q&A section at the end of every chapter in the Handbook (like the
> existing 2.11.4, but considerably expanded).
> 
> As long as this section is appropriately marked up, we can then
> automatically generate the separate FAQ from its contents.  We can then
> produce three documents:
> 
>     Handbook with integrated FAQ, one volume
> 
>     Handbook, no FAQ, one volume
> 
>     FAQ, one volume

This is a really nice idea, and I already know what it looks like, in my head.
I'll do some experimenting and let doc@ know what falls out.

Ceri
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