On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:17:31PM -0800, Michelle Olson wrote:
> Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> >G'Day,
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:37:53PM +1100, Janice Gelb wrote:
> >  
> >>docs-discuss-request at opensolaris.org wrote:
> >>    
> >>>I'd like to propose a project to work on backporting the Solaris Dynamic 
> >>>Tracing Guide changes from the wiki to XML, so we can provide PDF for 
> >>>DTrace practitioners.
> >>>      
> >
> >Michelle, maybe you meant this anyway, but wouldn't the value here be
> >that of providing updated versions of the DTrace Guide to match specific
> >updates of Solaris 10?  Simply generating PDFs can/should be doable from
> >wikis.sun.com.
> >  
> Not that I'm aware of, but feel free to send a PDF along if you have it. 
> FWIU, we are not updating this book for S10 updates, but I could be 
> wrong about that.

Login to wikis.sun.com, then use "Info" -> "Export As: PDF".  It seems
to only do one page at a time - maybe I don't know how to drive it
properly. :)

> >  
> >>>Paul Echeverri and myself will be the initial 
> >>>leaders, but we welcome help from anyone interested to keep the XML 
> >>>sources up-to-date! This project will be called dtrace-doc and will host 
> >>>a mercurial repository of the current XML sources.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>You might also want to check with Paul to see whether all
> >>previous editorial and structural suggestions have been
> >>incorporated into the current SGML/XML source. If not,
> >>hopefully that incorporation can coincide with the
> >>incorporation of the wiki changes.
> >>    
> >
> >Do we have SGML ID based URLs yet for the DTrace Guide chapters?  There
> >are places such as /usr/demo/dtrace where this would be handy.
> >  
> Right, Mike P has asked about this too, best thing to do now is point to 
> the part number, which is most stable, http://docs.sun.com/doc/819-3620

Rightio - thanks.

Brendan

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Brendan
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