Re: [exim] This should be simple but ...

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Author: Jeremiah Foster
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] This should be simple but ...

On Sep 1, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Exim docs are some of the best out there. But for some reason I still
>> find
>> things hard to find.
>
> If there are index entries that you look for and don't find, tell me,
> and I'll try to put them in the next edition. You *did* look at the
> index this time, I presume? After the index (and table of contents),
> grep is your friend.
>
>> BTW - how are these docs generated?
>
> The current edition of everything except spec.txt is generated by an
> arcane local process. The next edition will be generated by the
> sequence
>
> AsciiDoc source -> DocBook XML -> various output processors
>
> The current spec.txt is a version already generated by the new process.
> I am unhappy about the typesetting of the PostScript/PDF versions in
> the
> new scheme of things (and the HTML isn't ideal either) but hope that
> better free processors will come along in due course. At least the
> input
> will be in a relatively standard format.


Personally, I find the spec easier to read than the HTML. The colors
are off-putting and there is a lack of white space to make for easy
reading. Might a new CSS file fix this easily?

Jeremiah