Re: [Firebird-docs] Do we ever build release notes all together?

At 04:44 AM 19/10/2011, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: Hi Norman, Sorry, I cannot type: I'm wondering if this is something we might need to fix. I have had a look in rlsnotes20/install/Compatibility20x.docbook where at least one section has an id=compat-sql but I can find no cross refernce (or

Re: [Firebird-docs] Choosing the translation service

At 09:37 p.m. 10/11/2014, Alexey Kovyazin wrote: Hi All, As you know, we are going to translate recently completed Firebird Language Reference in Russian into English. For this purpose we are working with translation services. I need input from English speakers (native and not native :) about

Re: [Firebird-docs] General Note about Firebird 2.5.3 Security Update 1 is missing

Tomneko, At 08:16 p.m. 27/03/2015, Tsutomu Hayashi wrote: Hi all I am planning to translate Firebird 2.5 Release Notes to Japanese. Therefore I checked the cvs repository at /firebird/manual/src/docs/rlsnotes/rlsnotes25/ . But, there is a GeneralNotes25.docbook not contained Security Update 1.

Re: [Firebird-docs] General Note about Firebird 2.5.3 Security Update 1 is missing

At 12:31 a.m. 28/03/2015, Tsutomu Hayashi wrote: Hi Helen Thanks for your reply. Ok, I am waiting new release notes! Ready now. Kia ora, Helen -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website,

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 3 Authentication: passwords

Hi Stefan, I'm just reading through the Firebird 3 release notes. The chapter about Increased Password Length speaks of a maximum of 20 bytes. The second blue box in this chapter then asks: **Why is the password effectively limited to 20 characters? It is unclear from this documentation

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 3 QSG source

At 09:52 a.m. 23/07/2015, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: Hi all, Could someone please email me the file qsg3.xml (or quickstartguide-3.xml, or whatever) which lives in the manual/src/docs/firebirddocs directory of our CVS module? I'm on a slow and very unreliable link here and I've been struggling for

[Firebird-docs] Firebird Language Reference 2.5 (English) Beta 1

Hello all, Well, the review of the translated text has gotten this far, thanks to the efforts of Paul Vinkenoog and Mark Rotteveel. Unfortunately, we didn't get any more Englsh speakers to help with the review, so there is still a way to go. We decided to release what we have as a Beta. You

Re: [Firebird-docs] Where are the doclibs?

Title: Re: [Firebird-docs] Where are the doclibs? Hello Martin, Thursday, January 28, 2016, 8:18:12 PM, you wrote: Hi, I’ve just set up a new environment and downloaded the doc sources via CVS. I wanted to download the doclibs as mentioned in the readme. But when I use the URL

[Firebird-docs] [] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference Beta 1

In {firebird-devel] liviuslivius wrote: Hi, i do not know if this is good place to but: on page 49 is: "If you need to do a case-insensitive search for something enclosed inside a string ( LIKE '%Abc%' ), use of the CONTAINING predicate is recommended, in

Re: [Firebird-docs] Langref - Expressions/Constant

Title: Re: [Firebird-docs] Langref - Expressions/Constant Hello , Monday, February 1, 2016, 8:25:55 PM, Michał Ziemski wrote: Hi! I've been going through the beta langref. In fblangref25-commons-expressions there is a description for "Constant": "A number; or a string literal enclosed in

Re: [Firebird-docs] Langref - Expressions/Constant

Title: Re: [Firebird-docs] Langref - Expressions/Constant Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 8:29:57 PM, Michal Ziemsk wrote: Column name _expression_: - Firebird converts table/column names to upper case internally. I think this should be explicitly stated as it's, I believe, failrly unique to

Re: [Firebird-docs] Hello from Seattle, WA

Hello James, Friday, March 18, 2016, 6:26:32 PM, you wrote: As others said already, your assistance would be very welcome. Paul Vinkenoog is the project's Docs coordinator. He's also one of our most prolific author/editors. At the moment, we have an urgent need for native speakers of English

Re: [Firebird-docs] Publishing process of the FB LangRef translations

Hello Martin, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 3:21:15 AM, you wrote: > How do we want to go on with the translated texts of the langref? > Should I translate the complete langref first or do we want to publish > finished sections? I think it is safe to proceed with translating the chapters and

[Firebird-docs] [Firebird-checkins] manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 fblangref25-commons.xml, 1.6, 1.7 fblangref25.xml, 1.19, 1.20

Update of /cvsroot/firebird/manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 In directory sfp-cvs-1.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv7265 Modified Files: fblangref25-commons.xml fblangref25.xml Log Message: Added a correction to arithmetic operator predence. Index:

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few more suggestions /5

Hello Aage, Monday, April 11, 2016, 6:23:52 AM, you wrote: > I'll have mostly non-Firebird things on my mind the next week, so I'm > just unloading my latest comments now! Hope it goes well for you Aage! I'm not ignoring your suggestions, just a bit swamped at the moment with customer work

Re: [Firebird-docs] Getting started

Hello james, Monday, March 21, 2016, 6:33:36 PM, you wrote: > >Hello Martin, Paul, Helen, and Mark. > I downloaded the latest version of the beta > Firebird_Language_Reference_25EN.pdf. I will begin by reviewing the > DML, PSQL and Functions chapters. DML up to and including PROCEDURE

Re: [Firebird-docs] Getting started

Monday, March 21, 2016, 11:37:52 PM, Paul V. wrote: What I wrote: >> DML up to and including PROCEDURE has been done. Just the small >> objects remain, starting from PDF page 151 (pagination P. 137) at the >> EXTERNAL FUNCTION section. Paul corrected: > That's DDL up to and including PROCEDURE.

[Firebird-docs] [Firebird-checkins] manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 fblangref25-commons.xml, 1.5, 1.6 fblangref25-datatypes.xml, 1.5, 1.6 fblangref25-ddl.xml, 1.9, 1.10 fblangref25-functio

Update of /cvsroot/firebird/manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 In directory sfp-cvs-1.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv17868 Modified Files: fblangref25-commons.xml fblangref25-datatypes.xml fblangref25-ddl.xml fblangref25-functions-vars.xml

[Firebird-docs] FbLangRef Build 0.902

Martin, Is there some way you can parse those "diffs" notifications from CVS to make them useful for your translation team's SVN? Helen -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /3

Hello Aage, Friday, April 1, 2016, 10:28:51 AM, you wrote: > p.97 > Table 5.8. ALTER TABLE Statement Parameters > The pagebreak reveal an akward split between the parameter > 'collation" and its description. > This may be a pdf artifact, but I'm using "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, > 2015 Release

[Firebird-docs] [Firebird-checkins] manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 fblangref25-commons.xml, 1.7, 1.8 fblangref25-ddl.xml, 1.10, 1.11 fblangref25.xml, 1.20, 1.21

Update of /cvsroot/firebird/manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 In directory sfp-cvs-1.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv24351 Modified Files: fblangref25-commons.xml fblangref25-ddl.xml fblangref25.xml Log Message: Another batch of suggested edits from Aage Johansen Index:

[Firebird-docs] FbLangRef25 Translators & Reviewers

To those currently reviewing and translating the Language Reference, I have put up new PDF and HTML builds today - build 0.904 - and have updated the sources in CVS - see the diff file I sent to the list. These are small changes in the DDL and Commons chapters but they are in sections that are

Re: [Firebird-docs] Improve TOC and searchability of Firebird Language Reference

Hello Paul, Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 1:03:39 AM, you wrote: > Helen wrote: > But notice that the (local) changes I made only apply to multipage HTML. > Of course we can do the same for monohtml (as you use for the rlsnotes), > but we can also leave that build as-is or make other adjustments.

[Firebird-docs] [Firebird-checkins] manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 fblangref25-commons.xml, 1.8, 1.9 fblangref25-functions-vars.xml, 1.5, 1.6 fblangref25.xml, 1.21, 1.22

Update of /cvsroot/firebird/manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 In directory sfp-cvs-1.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv23534 Modified Files: fblangref25-commons.xml fblangref25-functions-vars.xml fblangref25.xml Log Message: Corrections from P. Vinkenoog and D.

[Firebird-docs] Translators: FbLangRef25 latest corrections

To translators: I just redirected the CVS notification regarding the latest batch of corrections in fblangref25-commons.xml and fblangref25-functions-vars.xml. In both cases, these are files that are marked as already reviewed. New builds (doc version 0.905) of both PDF and HTML are on the web

Re: [Firebird-docs] Improve TOC and searchability of Firebird Language Reference

Hello Paul, Monday, May 9, 2016, 12:08:27 AM, you wrote: > My preference would be the second variant (2 - 2 - 2), where no ToC > has more than 2 levels and section ToCs are single-level. Since each > top-level section has its own page, having a multilevel ToC at the > top is not very useful

Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data types

Hello Dmitry, Thursday, August 11, 2016, 9:42:48 AM, you wrote: > Nope, floating point numbers are stored completely different to the > fixed point numbers. FLOAT is single-precision format which occupies 4 > bytes. DOUBLE is double-precision format which occupies 8 bytes. But > they have no

Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data types

atter regarding Firebird documentation > Betreff: Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data > types > 11.08.2016 06:38, Helen Borrie wrote: >> >> Floating point data types are stored in an IEEE 754 binary format that >> comprises sign, ex

[Firebird-docs] [Firebird-checkins] manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 fblangref25-datatypes.xml, 1.6, 1.7 fblangref25.xml, 1.22, 1.23

Update of /cvsroot/firebird/manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 In directory sfp-cvs-1.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv16889 Modified Files: fblangref25-datatypes.xml fblangref25.xml Log Message: Corrected text for floating-point data types (Build 0.906) Index:

[Firebird-docs] Martin Koeditz (OFF-TOPIC POST)

Martin, your mail server is rejecting all my attempts to send you an email, from this address and 5 others! The rejection message in all cases is 5.3.0 - Other mail system problem 550-'5.7.1 Message rejected as spam by Content Filtering.' Is there some way you can whitelist at least this one?

Re: [Firebird-docs] Consider migrating to GitHub?

GitHub might increase visibility and will likely lower the barrier > for contribution. Helen Borrie: I don't see how moving the source from one obscure repository to a different obscure repository would heighten visibility or lower any barrier. If there's a good reason to change, I'd go with it,

Re: [Firebird-docs] What chapter to translate next?

Hello Martin, Saturday, May 13, 2017, 12:37:02 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve committed the fblangref25-commons-de chapter to the manual > module. Which of the following is ready for translation? > > - DDL > - DML > - PSQL > - Security > -

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:59:11 AM, Paul V. wrote: > Hi all, > Three people - one of them a committer - have expressed their preference > for moving to GitHub. > I have no problem with that, but I would also like to hear Helen's opinion, > as she is the heaviest user of the manual module.

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

as doing with CVS and SVN. Helen -- Kind regards, Helen Borrie -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

Re: [Firebird-docs] SourceForge CVS to GitHub migration done

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 1:21:39 PM, PaulV wrote: > And this CHM file describes the ODBC driver? Yes, it's the same content as the PDF and the HTML with some edits to stop it exploding when you try to hit an external link. Oh, and about a zillion fewer Firebird logos. ;-) > So it naturally

Re: [Firebird-docs] SourceForge CVS to GitHub migration done

Monday, November 13, 2017, 12:03:31 AM, Mark wrote: > The migration from SourceForge CVS to GitHub has been completed. The > repository is at > https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation > (with clone URL > g...@github.com:FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation.git or >

Re: [Firebird-docs] SourceForge CVS to GitHub migration done

Hello Mark, >> Next thing, I have source files for the build of the CHM file, for use >> with the M$ help compiler, all zipped up. Where should I put them? >> I'll write a little readme. > What are these CHM files for? You could consider just adding them > (unzipped) in a specific subfolder of

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

Sunday, November 5, 2017, 1:42:35 AM, Mark wrote: >>> So what are the next steps? > I'm waiting on Helen to give the final go. Actually, I was waiting to see some comment from Paul V. I still seem to have one or two novice issues on this side but they are not showstoppers. Over the weekend I

Re: [Firebird-docs] TEST:: Dumitru Rubey

I wrote: > Dumitru has indicated he is willing to translate some documentation to > Romanian. He has been trying to subscribe and has not had any kind of > feedback. Of course, under the privacy restrictions imposed last year > by Sourceforge, I can no longer check the subscriber list. >

Re: [Firebird-docs] German translation of ODBC/JDBC Driver manual

Brilliant job, Martin! Helen --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com ___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs

Re: [Firebird-docs] Missing 2.5.9 release notes in git

A couple of weeks ago Mark wrote > I just noticed that the release notes in git are still at 2.5.8. What > happened to the 2.5.9 release notes? Sorry for the delay replying. I have had a stroke with various negative effects that are not being rehabilitated very quickly. Working the github

Re: [Firebird-docs] Is src/docs/refdocs/langref/langref25 safe to remove?

Mark, > Today I noticed that we have > src/docs/refdocs/langref/fblangref25 > and > src/docs/refdocs/langref/langref25 > The former seems to be the released Firebird 2.5 Language Reference, > while the latter seems to be an abandoned work-in-progress. Correct. > The presence > of both is a