Time for a Network Handbook?

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 6 22:22:20 UTC 2004


On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:50:38 -0600
Tillman Hodgson <tillman at seekingfire.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:23:57PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > One thing we should think about is using link entities to allow the
> > different chapters to be included in different books without breaking
> > the build due to broken references.  Currently, the single-chapter
> > builds often fail because xrefs to other chapters can not be looked
> > up.  If we replaced all xrefs to other chapters with entities like:
> > 
> > &link.chapter.sect;
> > 
> > Then we could define that entity depending on the presence of the -i
> > parameter entity for the given chapter file.  If the chapter to be
> > linked to is included in the build (and it's -i entity defined), then
> > the <xref> is created.  If it is not included in the build, then
> > descriptive text is used instead 'The Blah Chapter in the Handbook'.
> 
> Fixing single-chapter builds would be great.

I'm working on it.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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