Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-04 Thread Vincenzo Nicosia
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 01:49:01PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:15:31AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2020-03-02, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > I was thinking of the probably quite unlikely event that somebody who > > > wants this > > > comes up wit

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:15:31AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-03-02, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > I was thinking of the probably quite unlikely event that somebody who wants > > this > > comes up with an actually reproducible way that could be turned into an > > otherwise > >

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-04 Thread Frank Beuth
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:15:31AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-03-02, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: I was thinking of the probably quite unlikely event that somebody who wants this comes up with an actually reproducible way that could be turned into an otherwise unremarkable make targ

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-03-02, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > I was thinking of the probably quite unlikely event that somebody who wants > this > comes up with an actually reproducible way that could be turned into an > otherwise > unremarkable make target. >From experience with other generated files: it wo

simple script to merge faq files in a single html (was Re: Web documentation available offline by default?)

2020-03-02 Thread Vincenzo Nicosia
Please find attached a preliminary rough shell script that does the job for the faq[0-9]+.html files, keeping track of anchors appropriately. It is missing pf, ports, and other files, but it's a starting point. Disclaimer: this is unofficial stuff and I am not asking for this script to be supporte

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 14:18, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 07:03:25AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > If you find a way to do that in a way that does not break and require > > > manual > > > labor after each change to the source files, I'm sure your contributing > > >

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 07:03:25AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > If you find a way to do that in a way that does not break and require > > manual > > labor after each change to the source files, I'm sure your contributing > > the code back to the project would be appreciated. > > I'll say it a

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf > > format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for > > the BSD Specialist certification. Having a sing

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf > format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for > the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it > easier to search

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Vincenzo Nicosia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Besides, the FAQ only applies to -stable and not to -current, so > > installing it on a -current system would be badly misleading. > > And we certainly don't want the release(8) process

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Vincenzo Nicosia
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: [cut] > > How about if the people who want this would, instead of pitying the fact > that it's not available in the format you want, create a port (with a > build depends on wkthmltopdf) to generate the files. And keep the port > update

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf > > format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for > > the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it > > easier t

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it easier to search for a s

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Vincenzo Nicosia
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: [cut] > > Besides, the FAQ only applies to -stable and not to -current, so > installing it on a -current system would be badly misleading. > And we certainly don't want the release(8) process to work differently > for -current and -s

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-01 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ottavio, Ottavio Caruso wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:27:30AM +: > Warning: beginner here. That's OK, as long as you don't feel offended when not every idea is instantly acted on. ;-) (Actually, that applies to experienced users as well - and even to developers.) > What about having

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-29 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 18:14, Luke A. Call wrote: > > Another option I found helpful once is to use wget to download the > FAQs' content to a local copy (unless that puts too much load on the server), > then have a simple local shell alias to view it with links or w3m. > (At the time, it was a qui

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-28 Thread Luke A. Call
Another option I found helpful once is to use wget to download the FAQs' content to a local copy (unless that puts too much load on the server), then have a simple local shell alias to view it with links or w3m. (At the time, it was a quick way for me, to preserve the content in case I wanted it wh

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-28 Thread prx
I made this : https://ybad.name/Logiciel-libre/OpenBSD/FAQ-offline.html Le 28 février 2020 12:27:30 GMT+01:00, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : >On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 06:24, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> >> Hi Frank, >> >> Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +: >> >> > Is the web docum

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-28 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 06:24, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +: > > > Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by > > default anywhere, > > No it isn't. > [...] > > We don't want to lose the valued contributions

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-28 Thread lists
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:54:49 + Frank Beuth > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:24:50AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >Hi Frank, > > > >Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +: > > > >> Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by > >> default anywhere, > > > >

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-27 Thread Frank Beuth
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:24:50AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi Frank, Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +: Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by default anywhere, No it isn't. I offered some years ago to translate the FAQ from HTML to md

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-27 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Frank, Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +: > Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by > default anywhere, No it isn't. I offered some years ago to translate the FAQ from HTML to mdoc(7) and to include it in /usr/share/man/faq/ such that it wo

Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-02-27 Thread Frank Beuth
Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by default anywhere, or do we have to pull it from CVS manually?