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From: Eric Blake
Subject: FYI webpage update
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:51:40 -0600
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I've checked in the following to the web pages, in order to comply with
the latest recommendations from
http://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html.

Does anyone know how the pig latin and sweedish chef translation pages
were generated, or should we delete those now that they are out of date?

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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Index: autoconf.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -p -r1.22 -r1.23
--- autoconf.html       24 Oct 2006 19:46:08 -0000      1.22
+++ autoconf.html       24 Aug 2007 20:34:57 -0000      1.23
@@ -1,38 +1,32 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
-<HTML>
-<HEAD>
-<TITLE>Autoconf - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</TITLE>
-<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
-<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="autoconf">
-</HEAD>
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000" 
VLINK="#9900DD">
-
-<H3>Autoconf</H3>
-<A HREF="/graphics/agnuhead.html"><IMG SRC="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
-ALT=" [Image of the Head of a GNU] " WIDTH="129" HEIGHT="122"></A>
-[<A HREF="autoconf.html">English</A>]
-[<A HREF="autoconf.alt-sc.html">Sweedish (Chef)</A>]
-[<A HREF="autoconf.alt-pl.html">Latin (Pig)</A>]
-
-<P>
-<HR>
-
-<P>
-<H4>Table of Contents</H4>
-<UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#introduction" NAME="TOCintroduction">Introduction to Autoconf</A>
-<LI><A HREF="#downloading" NAME="TOCdownloading">Downloading Autoconf</A>
-<LI><A HREF="#mailinglists" NAME="TOCmailinglists">Autoconf Mailing Lists</A>
-<LI><A HREF="#family" NAME="TOCfamily">Related Software</A>
-</UL>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>Autoconf - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Autoconf - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</h2>
+
+<!-- This document uses XHTML 1.0 Strict, but may be served as -->
+<!-- text/html.  Please ensure that markup style considers -->
+<!-- appendix C of the XHTML 1.0 standard. See validator.w3.org. -->
+
+<!-- Please ensure links are consistent with Apache's MultiView. -->
+<!-- Change include statements to be consistent with the relevant -->
+<!-- language, where necessary. -->
+
+<h4>Table of Contents</h4>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#introduction" name="TOCintroduction">Introduction to Autoconf</a>
+<li><a href="#downloading" name="TOCdownloading">Downloading Autoconf</a>
+<li><a href="#documentation" name="TOCdocumentation">Documentation</a>
+<li><a href="#mailinglists" name="TOCmailinglists">Autoconf Mailing Lists</a>
+<li><a href="#family" name="TOCfamily">Related Software</a>
+<li><a href="#bug" name="TOCbug">Report a Bug</a>
+<li><a href="#maintainer" name="TOCmaintainer">Maintainers</a>
+</ul>
 
-<P>
-<HR>
+<hr>
 
-<P>
-<H4><A HREF="#TOCintroduction" NAME="introduction">Introduction to 
Autoconf</A></H4>
+<h3><A HREF="#TOCintroduction" name="introduction">Introduction to 
Autoconf</a></h3>
 
-<P>
+<p>
 Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell
 scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
 These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like
@@ -40,104 +34,229 @@ systems without manual user intervention
 configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the
 operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4
 macro calls.
+</p>
 
-<P>
-Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires <a
-href="/software/m4/">GNU M4</a>.  You should install GNU M4 (version
-1.4.7 or later) before configuring Autoconf,
-so that Autoconf's configure script can find it.  The configuration scripts
-produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not need to
-have Autoconf (or GNU M4).
-
-<P>
-The manual is available <A
-HREF="/software/autoconf/manual/">online</A>.
-
-<P>
-<H4><A HREF="#TOCdownloading" NAME="downloading">Downloading Autoconf</A></H4>
-
-<P>
-GNU Autoconf releases can be found on <A 
HREF="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/";>
-http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/</A> or one of <A HREF="/prep/ftp.html">the
-mirrors</A>.
-You can also order a <A HREF="http://order.fsf.org/";>CD-ROM</A> from the FSF
-or use <A HREF="/software/software.html#HowToGetSoftware">other methods</A>
+<p>
+Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf
+requires <a href="/software/m4/m4.html">GNU M4</a>.  You should
+install GNU M4 (version 1.4.7 or later) before configuring Autoconf,
+so that Autoconf's configure script can find it.  The configuration
+scripts produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not
+need to have Autoconf (or GNU M4).
+</p>
+
+<h3><a href="#TOCdownloading" name="downloading">Downloading Autoconf</a></h3>
+
+<p>
+GNU Autoconf releases can be found on
+<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/";>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/</a>
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 to obtain a copy.
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-<P>
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+<p>
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+</p>
 
-<P>
+<p>
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-<P>
-<H4><A HREF="#TOCmailinglists" NAME="mailinglists">Autoconf Mailing 
Lists</A></H4>
+<h3><a href="#TOCdocumentation" name="documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
 
-<P>
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+
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-<P>
-<H4><A HREF="#TOCfamily" NAME="family">Related Software</A></H4>
+<p>
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-<P>
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+</ul>
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+
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 Updated:
-$Id: autoconf.html,v 1.22 2006/10/24 19:46:08 eggert Exp $
-<HR>
-</BODY>
-</HTML>
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2007/08/24 20:34:57 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div id="translations">
+<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
+
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
+<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German. -->
+<!-- Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text. -->
+<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
+<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+<!--  - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+<!--  - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+<!--  - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+<!--  - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
+<!--  to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right, cf. -->
+<!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
+<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities. -->
+
+<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- English -->
+<li><a href="/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">English</a>&nbsp;[en]</li>
+<!-- Sweedish (Chef) -->
+<li><a href="/software/autoconf/autoconf.alt-sc.html">Sweedish (Chef)</a></li>
+<!-- Latin (Pig) -->
+<li><a href="/software/autoconf/autoconf.alt-pl.html">Latin (Pig)</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>

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