Greetings, and book.pdf.bz2 issues

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Jon Allen wrote:

> I recently installed FreeBSD for the first time and I'm coming up to speed.  
> I hope to contribute some work to the FDP.  Should I first start looking at o
> pen doc problem reports?  Any guidance on areas where I can help would be app
> reciated.

That's a good start.  Another place to look is the current projects 
page:

http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html

> Also, I downloaded the handbook today from ftp.freebsd.org in the book.pdf.bz
> 2 format.  Unfortunately, this pdf file:
> 
> 1. Ends at page 607, in the middle of Chapter 22
> 2. Has a broken table of contents b/c of problem 1

Don't know about these.  I know that the PDF renditions on the FTP 
server break from time to time...I'm not sure why this happens.  I 
can almost always generate the Handbook from my local sources with no 
problems, so...???...

> 3. Has several instances of missing terms, such as
> 
> Page i  - "[...] installing [Oracle] and [SAP R/3]."
> Page ii - "[...] or another flavor of [UNIX] then [...]"
> 
> The terms in brackets above are missing in the PDF output but present in the 
> html output.

Interesting.  This I *have* seen in another document.  Something I
recognize is that these are all trademarks (i.e. implemented using
trademark entities).

(The other document is the "Roadmap to 5-STABLE", which I recently made 
a few trivial edits on.  I usually work from PDF renditions when I edit 
documents.  Oh yes, I made my own PDF files, so this particular problem 
isn't peculiar to the versions on the FTP server.)

Bruce.


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