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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
On Sep 5, 2004, at 8:36 AM, maxb@tigris.org wrote:
> Modified: trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml
> Url:
> http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml?
> view=diff&rev=10818&p1=trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml&r1=10817&p2=trunk/
> doc/book/book/ch04.xml&r2=10818
> =======================================================================
> =======
> --- trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml (original)
> +++ trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml Sun Sep 5 08:35:59 2004
> @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
> <para>A word of warning: while <command>svn diff</command> and
> <command>svn merge</command> are very similar in concept, they
> do have different syntax in many cases. Be sure to read about
> - them in Chapter 8 for details, or ask <command>svn
> + them in Chapter 9 for details, or ask <command>svn
> help</command>. For example, <command>svn merge</command>
> requires a working-copy path as a target, i.e. a place where
> it should apply the tree-changes. If the target isn't
Hmm.. shouldn't this be an xref to avoid this kind of renumbering hooey
in the future?
-Fitz
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>.
Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2004, at 8:36 AM, maxb@tigris.org wrote:
>> Modified: trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml
>> Url:
>> http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml?
>> view=diff&rev=10818&p1=trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml&r1=10817&p2=trunk/
>> doc/book/book/ch04.xml&r2=10818
>> =======================================================================
>> =======
>> --- trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml (original)
>> +++ trunk/doc/book/book/ch04.xml Sun Sep 5 08:35:59 2004
>> @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
>> <para>A word of warning: while <command>svn diff</command> and
>> <command>svn merge</command> are very similar in concept, they
>> do have different syntax in many cases. Be sure to read about
>> - them in Chapter 8 for details, or ask <command>svn
>> + them in Chapter 9 for details, or ask <command>svn
>> help</command>. For example, <command>svn merge</command>
>> requires a working-copy path as a target, i.e. a place where
>> it should apply the tree-changes. If the target isn't
>
> Hmm.. shouldn't this be an xref to avoid this kind of renumbering hooey
> in the future?
Very probably. I'm still very new to docbook, so that didn't occur to me at
the time.
Ah well. At least I changed it from wrong text to correct text, which is a
step in the right direction.
Max.
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@collab.net>.
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:11, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> "Peter N. Lundblad" <pe...@famlundblad.se> writes:
> > I never understood why you have this kind of ids instead of mnemonic
> > names. When I write XML documents, I always use meaningful names instead
> > of chapter numbers. But it's your book, and there is probably some
> > rationale...
>
> It's part of the O'Reilly XML style guidelines, IIRC.
Ayup.
-Fitz
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by kf...@collab.net.
"Peter N. Lundblad" <pe...@famlundblad.se> writes:
> I never understood why you have this kind of ids instead of mnemonic
> names. When I write XML documents, I always use meaningful names instead
> of chapter numbers. But it's your book, and there is probably some
> rationale...
It's part of the O'Reilly XML style guidelines, IIRC.
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by "Peter N. Lundblad" <pe...@famlundblad.se>.
On Wed, 7 Sep 2004, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@collab.net> writes:
>
> > to avoid this kind of renumbering hooey in the future?
>
> ...but it won't help us in this way, because our xref's have the
> chapter number in their ID's, so they'd have to get updated anyway.
> :-)
>
I never understood why you have this kind of ids instead of mnemonic
names. When I write XML documents, I always use meaningful names instead
of chapter numbers. But it's your book, and there is probably some
rationale...
Regards,
//Peter
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@collab.net>.
On Sep 7, 2004, at 11:50 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@collab.net> writes:
>
>>> @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
>>> <para>A word of warning: while <command>svn diff</command> and
>>> <command>svn merge</command> are very similar in concept,
>>> they
>>> do have different syntax in many cases. Be sure to read
>>> about
>>> - them in Chapter 8 for details, or ask <command>svn
>>> + them in Chapter 9 for details, or ask <command>svn
>>> help</command>. For example, <command>svn merge</command>
>>> requires a working-copy path as a target, i.e. a place where
>>> it should apply the tree-changes. If the target isn't
>>
>> Hmm.. shouldn't this be an xref
>
> Yes...
>
>> to avoid this kind of renumbering hooey in the future?
>
> ...but it won't help us in this way, because our xref's have the
> chapter number in their ID's, so they'd have to get updated anyway.
Doh! Well at least a search for the chapter id's will turn it up.
-Fitz
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Re: svn commit: r10818 - trunk/doc/book/book
Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
"Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@collab.net> writes:
> > @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
> > <para>A word of warning: while <command>svn diff</command> and
> > <command>svn merge</command> are very similar in concept, they
> > do have different syntax in many cases. Be sure to read about
> > - them in Chapter 8 for details, or ask <command>svn
> > + them in Chapter 9 for details, or ask <command>svn
> > help</command>. For example, <command>svn merge</command>
> > requires a working-copy path as a target, i.e. a place where
> > it should apply the tree-changes. If the target isn't
>
> Hmm.. shouldn't this be an xref
Yes...
> to avoid this kind of renumbering hooey in the future?
...but it won't help us in this way, because our xref's have the
chapter number in their ID's, so they'd have to get updated anyway.
:-)
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