I had the old IBM docs converted to LaTex several years ago.
I published the Quick Start with switches for Linux, Unix, etc. in quarto
handbook form (4 pages/sheet). and made myself a pocket book.
Forgotten is all the sophisticated forward and reverse cross referencing and
page numbering and chap
In message ,Ted
Creedon writes:
>Forgotten is all the sophisticated forward and reverse cross referencing and
>page numbering and chapter/section pointers.
it is still there. btw, you cant reference by page numbers. this is
a very strange idea. different media is going to have different page
"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" writes:
> it is still there. btw, you cant reference by page numbers. this is
> a very strange idea. different media is going to have different page
> numbers. references inside the admin reference manual were lost though.
> however, that documents has changed en
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"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" writes:
> it is
In message <878w8jclb5@windlord.stanford.edu>,Russ Allbery writes:
>POD is capable of including enough information that you could get them
>back, and most of the high-level references are still there. The
>low-level references (to specific sections of particular pieces of
>documentation) would
"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" writes:
> which is why i think the cross references between the man pages is
> somewhat useful. when formatted as html it makes is easier to go
> see the reference command -- just follow the link. however, i dont
> recall how much there was. this would sort of det
When you get to progressive trifocals (after coding since 1962...) you will
sympathize with those who are set in their ways.
I completely understand why the newer generation prefers POD, etc.. It is
less labor intensive to produce an acceptable result.
There is a docbook 2 Latex that I intend to
