Reword a couple of run-on sentences to use better subject-verb
agreement.
Terminate all items in a list with a period, not just some of
them.
Add <username> and <application> tags as appropriate.
"pw(8) has the information"
doesn't look well without the benefits of a hyperlink. Reword this to:
"For more information, please see pw(8)."
Update example to change shells to zsh since tcsh is now in the base
system.
internet -> Internet
can not -> cannot
CD-ROM -> CDROM
cdrom -> CDROM
UNIX -> Unix
To be standardized with the rest of the doc tree.
Approved by: murray
Remove extra prompts from <screen> examples.
Remove lame text telling the user to "Forget about it" if a port is
broken.
Use absolute links since relative links don't mean much in PostScript
form.
Fix the markup choice in a few instances.
Cuddle up the ending </programlisting> with the previous line.
Turn $FreeBSD$ in to $FreeBSD$ to prevent expansion.
Add Emacs local variables section.
This originally wasn't going to be quite so self-serving a commit. But I
see that Dima has already committed the other patches to this file while
I wasn't paying attention. . .
at the end of the reference. Removed the '/'.
+ Marked up 'log' and 'spool' as filenames
in the discussion of the 'var' directory.
+ Changed fdisk to show up as command.
+ Marked up vn as device.
+ Marked up "sysinstall" using a man.systinstall.8; entity.
PR: docs/28989
Submitted by: Martin Heinen <mheinen0@wiesbaden-online.de>
chapter headers that you may find more aesthetically pleasing than the
rather spartan chapter headers in Norm's print stylesheets. This
option only effects print output formats for English language books.
Also move the local-en-label-title-sep customization from share/sgml
to en_blah/share/sgml since the best values for this customization
depend on the locale.
This changes (make FORMATS=ps) :
Chapter 7. Users and Basic Account Management
7.1. Synopsis
into (make NICE_HEADERS=1 FORMATS=ps) :
Chapter 7
/Users and Basic Account Management/
7.1 Synopsis
More work needs to be done for the NICE_HEADERS case to enhance the
output, but I think its an improvement.
don't have to keep this number updated at N different places
throughout the doc tree.
Update 3 instances of "4,000" in the Handbook to use this new entity.
one must run a `make clean' (or `rm docbook.css') or the stylesheet is not
updated, regardless of whether or not it's been updated since the last
build.
O'Reilly has standardized on 'CD-ROM' as have several other
publishers, however 'CDROM' outnumbers 'CD-ROM' 2 to 1 in our
documentation and it has always appeared this way on FreeBSD CDs from
Walnut Creek/BSDi/WRS. I don't have a preference either way as long
as it stays consistent.
