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Re: Shell tutorial added
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:10:14 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > It'd be nice if we could offer this and other USD documents in pdf
> > format on the website. Perhaps under http://www.netbsd.org/docs/
> > near the links to the manual pages?
>
> That is my hope. We should also put up the other missing USD
> documents into the tree, such as the troff manual, troff tutorial,
> etc. All are available in the 4.4 final tree.
Perhaps we should make the docs more ps/pdf friendly, like using
monospaced fonts for examples &c?
Also, one minor nit (I realize it's inherited from the original): it's
better to use ".. > file" instead of "... >file" in examples.
> BTW, as it stands now, the makefiles for the various documents create
> postscript -- they probably should be altered to create PDF.
Why not both ps and pdf? While pdf is more convenient for viewing,
things like n-up printing (e.g. with psnup) are easier with ps.
-uwe
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