Re: texinfo 4.0: flushleft, flushright, image, short contents

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, W. L. Estes wrote:

> i had the idea to do this after getting feedback on a long (~60 pages
> when printed) faq i maintain. folks felt the html contents was rather
> too long to read through. but if the short contents point to the main
> contents then they can cut down on the searching. also, the short
> contents puts you to the link in the full contents which does send you
> to the real content.
> 
> maybe the right thing to do is to add an @-command to cause this to
> happen?

IMHO, this should be an optional behavior, either via some @-command
or some command-line option to makeinfo.

FWIW, I'm maintaining a FAQ that prints in more than 200 pages, and I
never received such complaints.  Perhaps you want to use
 --number-sections, to make it easier for your users to find their way.
Extensive indexing is another aid (IMHO, there should be no need for
users to search the TOC when they are looking for some specific issue,
that's what the indices are for).