RFC: Fixing handbook filenames (by id="blah" modifications).

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 21:11:13 +0100
Ceri Davies <setantae at submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:04:11PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > This morning, inspired by some unknown yearn to have the filenames
> > match the chapters (ie: s/nfs.html/network-nfs.html) I created a
> > patch that 'fixes' the advanced-networking chapter.
> > 
> > Since the handbook will not build if the <link> tags do not match
> > an id, the appropriate changes were made to the other chapters.
> > 
> > Before I commit this, does anyone have any opinions?  If this goes
> > in, I'll continue to work on this.  From what my builds show me,
> > this does NOT break anything.
> > 
> > Please see the semi large patch at:
> > 
> > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/handbook.diff
> 
> That diff needs updating (it has a diff of some cvs cruft in, and I
> updated the eresources chapter earlier and your diff reverts it), but
> I wouldn't be against the principle.

I noticed this also.  Which is why a new diff was uploaded, if you
want, you can check that version out.

> 
> I'm not sure I see the point at the moment though; there are other bits
> of the handbook that need work.  Also, some articles are still lacking
> id's and therefore generating xXXX.html filenames, which may be worth
> fixing first (which I only mention as I remember there was a sweep not
> long ago to get rid of xXXX.html files).
> 

Well, many articles are not only lacking id's, but also some content.
My goal here is handbook first, articles second.  Its not difficult
to do this, yet I don't want to throw the patch aside unless there is
a big call to leave it alone.

On a more humorous note:  I'm actually jumping full force on handbook
work, don't stop me now as I may get lazy tonight...  :)

But if you honestly feel strong about not committing this, I won't.
Personally, I think it will make the installed documentation look
better if anyone wishes to execute an ls(1) in the handbook directory.
I just think the format of <chapter><section>.html looks better and
more consitent.

--
Tom Rhodes