Creating an Admin Handbook

[Denis Peplin]

This will not stop us, modified patch ready
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Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:27:57PM +0400, Denis Peplin wrote:
> 
>>Currently we have one small problem with links between books -
>>relative and absolute links. For example, in printed version of
>>Handbook I see something like: ../faq/some_url.html
>>
>>Some work was recently done by hrs to solve this issue (Thanks again,
>>Hiroki!), but this work is not completely done.
>>
>>Probably it will be better to solve this issue before handbook
>>splitting rather than after.
> 
> 
> It's true that this work needs to be done, but I don't see why it
> needs to hold up the handbook split any more than any of the other
> countless issues on our todo lists.  Splitting the handbook won't make
> it any harder, because I'm going to use an entity to refer to the
> other book anyway, so we can just update that entity with the
> preferred absolute/relative link fix as appropriate.
> 
> In our Perforce repository we've turned all of these relative links
> into absolute ones.  I never merged it to CVS because I was waiting
> for someone to do something like what Hiroki has done.  I can help you
> and him finish up this great work after the Handbook split.
> 
> 
>>+<!ENTITY url.articles "&url.base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles">
>>+<!ENTITY url.books "&url.base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books">
> 
> 
> Cool.
> 
> 	- Murray
> 
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