Re: A Request.

Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp)
13 Oct 1996 11:25:56 +0900

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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
>> How would you like to see the FAQs formatted that are in one of the
>> digest formats ? Should they be split up as was done at Ohio State
>> or as a single file as I currently have ? Is splitting up the files
>> into section pages valuable ? As in more pleasant to read ? Or is
>> it not worth the effort ?
>
> Count me as a strong vote for splitting FAQs into
> one-HTML-page-per-section when you can identify sections. Over a
> slow link, that makes a huge difference in ease of reading.

Point taken, but this `one HTML page per section' is awfully annoying
when you want to browse a FAQ, especially if it contains many short,
but closely related sections. Many FAQs have their sections bundled
in chapters, so perhaps that a `one HTML page per chapter' is a not
altogether unreasonable compromise.

P.S.: Tom, sorry about the yanked copy in your mailbox. Forgot a key
stroke when inserting the Cc: header :-(

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Olaf Meeuwissen               Ph.D. student, Shinshu University, Japan
olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp    Information Management Systems Laboratory

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