On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> I was a little bit confused why the NetBSD Guide isn't available in PDF 
> Format? You would say "it is", yes, but after downloading and unpacking a 
> .gzip. I would like to open the PDF directly.

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/download/netbsd-en.pdf.gz gives me a working 
PDF file after gunzip - what exactly did you download, and what happened?


> The next thing is, that whoever converted the PDF to HTML/SGML has not used 
> the same Charset/Fonts / Stylesheets. The online Guide looks ugly compared 
> the PDF. For example the spaces on the left and right side of each page are 
> missing. It written full width. That's not a Documentation Standart, I 
> suppose.

We don't convert PDF->SGML, but rather XML->{HTML,PS,PDF}.
Personally, I have no problems reading the Guide at 
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/, and in HTML it's usually not the case to 
keep 1:1 the formatting as you have in a print format, so why waste 
whitespace on the left and right border. Of course you're welcome to 
shrink your browser windows to get that, but ... :-)

As for a "Documentation Standard", we're using DocBook/XML.


  - Hubert