diff DOCS/documentation.html @ 7015:72059027f953

Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a slightly modified form. This puts some warnings into blockquote tags, adds a few links, removes some UPPERCASE words and fixes a few wording and spelling errors.
author diego
date Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:42:52 +0000
parents 83a386e88f9e
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--- a/DOCS/documentation.html	Thu Aug 15 11:09:35 2002 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/documentation.html	Thu Aug 15 12:42:52 2002 +0000
@@ -307,16 +307,20 @@
 
 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
   the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
-  you have any other questions, return to the TOC (Table of Contents) and
-  search for the topic, read the FAQ, or try grepping though the files.</P>
+  you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
+  search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
+  through the files.</P>
 
 <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
   <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you
   can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though.
   Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote
-  Chris Phillips from the <B>mplayer-users</B> mailing list:</P>
-
-<P><I>"I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
+  Chris Phillips from the
+  <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
+  mailing list:</P>
+
+<BLOCKQUOTE>
+  I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
   a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
   girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
   otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
@@ -325,7 +329,8 @@
   case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
   your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
   people seem to see the word "error" and then stop...  few seem to actually
-  read the words on the OTHER side of the colon."</I></P>
+  read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
+</BLOCKQUOTE>
 
 
 
@@ -558,10 +563,10 @@
     driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
   <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
     <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
-    speedup. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling
+    speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
     <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
-    HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use at
-    least 4.2.0, as 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier
+    HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
+    <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
     releases.</LI>
   <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
     provided for the following cards:
@@ -732,8 +737,11 @@
     and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI>
   </UL>
 
-<P>HINT: Press the middle button (on 2 button mice press left and right
-  simultaneously) to open a GTK menu with DVD playing option!</P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE>
+  <B>Hint</B><BR>
+  Press the middle button (on 2 button mice press left and right
+  simultaneously) to open a GTK menu with a DVD playing option.
+</BLOCKQUOTE>
 
 <P>As <B>MPlayer</B> doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
   you want to use the GUI. See the
@@ -1844,8 +1852,11 @@
 
 <P><B><A NAME="authors">Appendix A - Authors</A></B></P>
 
-<P>NOTE: Do <B>not</B> send bug reports, help &amp; feature requests directly to
-  the authors!</P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE>
+  <B>Important</B><BR>
+  Do <B>not</B> send bug reports, help &amp; feature requests directly to
+  the authors!
+</BLOCKQUOTE>
 
 <P>Read <A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix C</A> and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists.</P>