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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Gentoo Linux Handbook book
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110311141626.GX3732@denkmatte.Speedport_W_502V_Typ_A> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiky4ifO9hAbBdpw9WdqEiuJ4c6=FmZrXPQ8YjAi@mail.gmail.com>

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On 23:40 Sun 06 Mar     , Mansour Moufid wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I would like to gauge interest in the community for a published
> version of the Gentoo Handbook. How many people would be interested in
> owning a complete printed version of the Handbook?

Hmm, wouldn't that be outdated immediately when printed?  And also,
think about the poor trees.  And also Copy&Paste of shell commands
during install is so much more of a pain.

Sorry, I see zero interest in this.

> It would be a translation of the current XML documentation into a
> "literate" form, using Noweb and LaTeX for better readability. See
> attached for a simple example chapter.
> 
> If you'd be interested, please leave a reply. Thanks.



-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07  4:40 [gentoo-doc] Gentoo Linux Handbook book Mansour Moufid
2011-03-11 14:16 ` Thomas Kahle [this message]
2011-03-11 15:19   ` Mansour Moufid

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