Where can I get the latest version of Ubuntu Server Guide(PDF)?

Dougie Richardson dougierichardson at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 7 12:48:04 UTC 2009


Sorry meant to say, obviously we include the former entity when
building the system docs and the latter for the book.

2009/4/7 Dougie Richardson <dougierichardson at ubuntu.com>:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> If there was a root document then there would be no issue with xrefs.
> Links to other manuals are still treated as hyperlinks but obviously
> the address is rubbish.
>
> I can see a solution though. If we create two entity files - one for
> normal use which would be exactly the same as the entry now:
>
> system-ghelp.ent
> <!ENTITY ghelp-rythymbox '<ulink type='help'
> url='ghelp:rhythmbox'>Rhythmbox manual</ulink>'>
>
> And a second for a book:
> book-ghelp.ent
> <!ENTITY ghelp-rythymbox '<ulink
> url='http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/'>Rhythmbox website</ulink>'>
>
> If we use &ghelp-rythymbox; in place of the current notation then we
> can have both.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dougie
>
> 2009/4/7 Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>:
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dougie Richardson
>> <dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> I understand that we can't build one big book but what I said is we
>>> can do sections as PDF.
>>
>> In my first email I sought to explain why this wouldn't work. You
>> haven't yet addressed what I said in that email, although if you have
>> some solutions for the linking problem, then I'm very happy to hear
>> them.
>>
>> Although you are right that the "Internet" document is relatively
>> standalone, even that will run into this problem to at least some
>> extent. It's compounded a lot more for most of the other documents,
>> which inter-depend and inter-link as well as linking to other
>> application manuals and apt: links for installing packages referred
>> to. This is a good thing, being part of TopicBasedHelp and I think we
>> should strive to use these techniques more if anything, rather than
>> less.
>>
>> Some of the documents simply incorporate wholesale other documents,
>> and a PDF of those would be totally useless (e.g. "New to Ubuntu",
>> "Files, Folders and Documents", "Advanced Topics").
>>
>> --
>> Matthew East
>> http://www.mdke.org
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>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dougie Richardson
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> dougierichardson at ubuntu.com
>



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