On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:55:19PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > It is not difficult to print two sheets - the invariant sections go on > > the second sheet and FSF wins more popularity. :-) > > This is just working around the issue.
Yes, it is. > Let the sheet instead be a coffee cup; in Germany Lehmann's sell > cups with Emacs or vi commands on them. You can't add a second cup > for the invariant sections, even if they fit on it, since people > usually buy or donate (and use) only one cup at a time. The same trick works here - one cup and one sheet of paper. Not everybody will like that solution but it works. > > You can structure the man-pages in a way that makes every single > > man-page to be only a part from a bigger document. In order to fulfil > > the requirements of the license you only need to include the invariant > > sections in only one of your man-pages. > > How would that work technically? The manpages need to end up as > separate files in /usr/share/man/man<section>/, needn't they? So you > mean that there would be one foo_manifesto.7.gz, one foo_history.7.gz > along with the actual executable's manpages? Yes. > I'm not convinced that simply referring to the invariant sections' > manpages in the SEE ALSO section would comply with the definition of > "Secondary section" and thus of "invariant section": It won't comply. Instead I am thinking for something like that: LINKS foo_toc(1) - table of contents foo_bar(1) - previous chapter foo_baz(2) - next chapter COPYRIGHT (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This manual page is a chapter from the foo manual. You may copy, distribute and/or modify this manual under the terms specified in foo_toc(1). > But this would only work if we always distribute the whole thing > together, and it works because the html page contains a back or contents > link that ultimately leads to the invariant sections. If the document > is GFDL, you cannot legally distribute just one of the html pages. Yes. > And that's what we want. Why? :-) > Imagine that AUCTeX's manual was under GFDL, and I want to distribute > only file:///usr/share/doc/auctex/HTML/auctex/auctex_11.html (which > deals with language support) in a documentation bundle about "Optimizing > TeX workflow for i18n and l10n". It is not inconvenient to distribute auctex_11.html together with the invariant sections. > It might be possible to do this, but what if I don't want to distribute > the whole thing? Like because I'm only interested in one particular > part? Yes, you have to distribute the invariant sections. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]