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Author SHA1 Message Date
Denis Peplin
60a1110f61 Switch to X.Org by default 2004-12-20 11:36:28 +00:00
Ceri Davies
8a480fd275 s/informations/information/ 2004-12-18 15:53:32 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
cc5e3f01df The latest available version of RealPlayer for FreeBSD is 8, so remove
the version numbers in the reference to RealPlayer, which will make
the text easier to maintain.

PR:		docs/74927
Submitted by:	Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
2004-12-12 00:05:15 +00:00
Ceri Davies
eb2cd84505 Internet Explorer fails to render some tables generated by the
informaltable element properly, unless the pgwide attribute is
explicitly set to 1.  Use this consistently within the (en) tree, and
update the FDP accordingly.  This should finally silence the demons in:

PR:		docs/73095
Submitted by:	Hilko Meyer <Hilko dot Meyer at gmx dot de>
2004-11-29 21:43:38 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
d21f59664f Fix a typo.
PR:		docs/74116
Submitted by:	Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl>
2004-11-19 14:43:40 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
9565589609 Devices name/node tagging is not consistent in the Handbook, it should
respect the following scheme:
- if the device name is /dev/foo --> <filename>/dev/foo</filename>
- if the device name is just foo --> <devicename>foo</devicename>
(See "4.2.5.7 Devices" from fdp-primer)
2004-08-11 16:24:26 +00:00
Murray Stokely
5d7f951005 Consistently use frame="none" attribute in <informaltable>s. This
looks better in HTML, and much better in print output.  Most tables
already had this attribute.
2004-07-09 08:32:37 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
af9d59b8be s/options LINUX/options COMPAT_LINUX/ 2004-03-15 19:30:40 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
ec730d4e32 In the MATLAB section: fix a link pointing on a wrong subsection.
Reported by:	Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@stat.duke.edu>
2003-12-30 09:09:45 +00:00
Martin Heinen
a973b8d345 Replace a filename tag with a command tag. 2003-11-18 01:22:45 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
48933bc8ec Add infos about the creation of a shutdown script for Matlab.
PR:		docs/59240
Submitted by:	Dan Pelleg <daniel+handbook@pelleg.org>
2003-11-13 20:53:22 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
6e44992223 In "Advanced Topics" section:
- Some punctuation fixes
- s/exec/execute s/FS/file system
- Some tags fixes.
2003-10-24 07:18:34 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
434f42efd0 In SAP section:
- Add and remove wrong application, command, filename, literal,
  username tags
- Some s/I/we
- Some punctuation fixes
- Some little rewordings
2003-10-22 07:46:27 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
a54781fb41 - Add the fact MATLAB script needs to be changed according to linux_base
version; fix a path to license.dat [1]
- Add some missing application tags and a missing word.

PR:		docs/57624 [1]
Submitted by:	Dan Pelleg <daniel+gnats@pelleg.org>
2003-10-06 18:28:41 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
3f97937522 In MATLAB section: [1]
- Tell the reader he should ask The Mathworks for a native version
- Add more infos about Java support.

In SAP section:
- Add and remove wrong application & command tags
- more s/I/we and contractions removal

PR:		docs/57025 [1]
Submitted by:	Dan Pelleg <daniel+handbook@pelleg.org>
2003-09-27 08:57:25 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
97dd84aa1f In SAP section:
- Add missing username, command, application and filename tags
- Remove useless '-'
- s/export/EXPORT for consitency
- s/I/We, s/my/our
- Some little rewordings (well the content is often disappointing, but
  I'm unable to do tests)
2003-09-20 08:00:01 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
ada8f32521 In SAP section:
- Various punctuation fixes
- Use of application, literal, acronym tags where needed
- s/I/We
- s/id/ID to be consistent with the rest of docs
- Some "little rewordings".
2003-09-14 09:14:54 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
d43debd757 Fix the "Installing the Linux Environment" part in the SAP section:
- Remove a para about "troubles" with 4.3-STABLE, this is outdated and
  confusing.
- Remove the version number of linux_base port.
- Rename "Linux Development" to "Linux Development Environment"
- Add a link to Oracle installation
- make install distclean is a better choice than make package to install
  a port
- Some rewordings, application tags addition, and other tags and manual
  page entities fixes.
2003-09-06 12:04:17 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
69283cbdb8 In SAP section:
- Add some missing application tags.
- Some rewordings (fixes, contraction, s/I/We/ etc.)
- Add a link to install-diff-media section where needed.
2003-09-06 07:25:21 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
9d8f8810f0 handbook/*
- Use trademark entities, including XFree86 now that the XFree86 Core
   Team has responded with their trademark policy.
 - Add trademark attributions.
 - Always use correct case for trademarks.
 - Don't join trademarks with other words, e.g. using hyphens.
 - Don't use trademarks as nouns (e.g. don't use "Windows NT's").

trademark.ent:
 - Add entities for more trademarks / companies.
 - Fix the Xiph.Org entry.
2003-08-31 22:15:28 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
fe4878a69d Add missing closing tags not found by nsgmls, and fix the case of some
tags.

PR:		docs/56231
Submitted by:	Denis Peplin <den@freebsd-doc.org.ru>
2003-08-31 16:41:36 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
d54f21bffa Fix a bit the Oracle section:
- Add missing application, username, envar, filename etc. tags
- Fix the ports for the linux_base etc. and be more general about
  various available ports.
- Add link to RPM port
- Some little rewordings.

(I do not own Oracle and/or a 9.X version, so I cannot check/update some
parts :( )
2003-08-29 08:06:00 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
865d78a5b2 Add missing application tags I forgot in a previous commit :( 2003-08-26 08:56:18 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
dccaf30235 Add and fix some closing para tags.
PR:		docs/55987
Submitted by:	Denis Peplin <info@volginfo.ru>
2003-08-26 07:19:28 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
0d7b39f726 - Add missing application and command tags
- Use ulink for a non-tagged URL
- Add a manual page entity for mkfontdir(1)
2003-08-25 19:09:47 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
fbe5f94e75 s/Install directory/installation directory/ 2003-08-25 16:52:07 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
be40faddd2 Fix a typo (thanks to Dan Pelleg).
While I'm there put a long command between screen tags.
2003-08-20 20:35:47 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
9de7704c20 - Add a section about Linux MATLAB installation and use [1]
- I added various trademarks needed in trademarks.ent but I did not
used them in the section.  They should be added when the trademarks
tagging will be definitively defined.

PR:		docs/55652 [1]
Submitted by:	Dan Pelleg <daniel+handbook@pelleg.org> [1]
2003-08-19 08:16:14 +00:00
Murray Stokely
db2e03bb18 Add port category so a link can be rendered to the linux_base port for
HTML output.  Also reword a sentence from my last commit.
2003-08-09 11:20:31 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6ce529f521 * Add a note about the different versions of the linux_base port
available, corresponding to different versions of the various Linux
  distributions.
* Add a missing newline in a <screen>.
* Minor grammar improvement.
* Add missing '/' to a pathname.
* Remove anachronistic FreeBSD 3.2 information.
* Add <colspecs> to improve the rendering of a table.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
2003-08-09 11:09:50 +00:00
Ceri Davies
142824467d Capitalise titles as per the Chicago Manual of Style. 2003-07-13 19:45:58 +00:00
Chern Lee
d7e984062c British English -> American English:
recognise -> recognize

Typos/Spelling Mistakes:
occured -> occurred
utilites -> utilities
enscrambled -> scrambled

Misc:
timezone -> time zone
linux -> Linux
interconvert -> convert
swapspace -> swap space
2003-06-03 22:09:46 +00:00
Murray Stokely
404e37aec1 Add type attribute for localhost ulinks that are only relevant for
HTML output.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
2003-05-18 07:13:19 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
6dd95937d9 Put my flame resistant suit on, and remove all unnecessary duplication
of URL text in <ulink> attributes, reducing the probability of typos
in future changes to the docs.
2003-04-11 01:11:39 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
84f6dbbaa3 Various typos fixing. These changes only concern the en_US version.
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
2003-01-12 21:25:57 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
1f359cbbab /tmp/msg 2003-01-12 18:20:55 +00:00
Martin Heinen
4111b2ea15 Remove excerpt from /etc/rc.i386, the code moved to /etc/rc.
In this context it is sufficient to say that setting
"linux_enable" enables the Linux-ABI.

PR:		46778
Submitted by:	Denis N. Peplin <info@volginfo.ru>
2003-01-06 16:28:03 +00:00
Martin Heinen
54003e89cd Complete a sentence and fix two typos. 2002-12-23 22:28:23 +00:00
Martin Heinen
18714ee672 Punctuation fix.
Approved by:	alex (mentor)
2002-11-27 13:24:04 +00:00
Martin Heinen
cf9e6d8cf7 Fix typos:
- remove a word
- s!pam!PAM!
- s!rpm!RPM!
- s!R3s!R3S!

Approved by:	alex (mentor)
2002-11-27 13:00:25 +00:00
Martin Heinen
7ed11f84f3 - s!&lt;ret&gt;!<keycap>Enter</keycap>!
- use <replaceable> instead of <>
- fix </step> and </para> tags
- move hyphen out of <application> elements
- put error messages in <errorname> or <errorcode>
- add missing tags

There are still many misued <emphasis> tags.

Approved by:	alex (mentor)
2002-11-27 12:52:16 +00:00
Murray Stokely
da6ef2fb7c Use non-breaking spaces.
PR:		docs/41546
Submitted by:	Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
2002-09-30 15:42:53 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
74ebe1f273 Use real quotes inside programlisting tags.
PR:		docs/42158
Submitted by:	Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
2002-08-29 10:35:52 +00:00
Ceri Davies
bb4c4c0d75 Make consistent use of <userinput> throughout the handbook. 2002-08-18 16:47:22 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
31bc5a9c8d Remove deprecated -w option for sysctl.
PR:		docs/41666
Submitted by:	Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
2002-08-15 21:05:21 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
f7e4314f90 Structure changes to the linuxemu chapter. Whitespace. No content. 2002-05-16 17:14:49 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
3867e5a95a Whitespace and structure changes to bring this chapter closer to FDP
conformance.  No content changes, translaters may ignore this.
2002-05-15 17:30:46 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
16455935dd Remove a period at the end of a few title's.
PR:		37854
Submitted by:	Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
2002-05-09 19:54:25 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
8cab15f40b Add a good bit of information about SAP R/3. This chapter also needs beat
with a structure hammer as it seems very out of sync with the primer.

PR:		37263
Submitted by:	Holger Kipp <kipp@alogis.com>
2002-05-06 16:04:19 +00:00
Ceri Davies
5693e26a0d Whitespace cleanup from last commit.
No content changes.

Approved by:	murray
2002-04-29 12:22:30 +00:00