Am 16.04.98 schrieb srivasta # datasync.com ... Moin Manoj!
MS> Though I have not been following the debate very closely, I do MS> believe we should allow for packages to be cross-indexed under MS> multiple headings. I don#t think so, instead we should use a very good structure that helps the user to find the needed document very easily. MS> The headings Should be chosen for maximal ease-of-use in MS> searching, and it is concievable that a package can reasonably be MS> classified under several such headings. Please, don#t mix up packages with documents. A package could contain several documents and you could of course register each document in an other directory. For some documents it maybe makes sense to register them in more than one diretory (see the bash man page). But I don#t like to register most documents in several directories. If we do so, we don#t need directories. Then we could move all documents in one directory and our user will always find his document in the first directory. MS> From the human factors viewpoint, it is more important to MS> support the index view rather than the TOC view. I don#t think so. If you want to build an index you have to add every HTML page of a document (like for example HOWTO.html, HOWTO-1.html, etc.) to several directories. On a computer you don#t need an index any more. You could use full text search. Most books don#t offer a good index. It#s not easy to produce a good one. Take for example Windows (sorry, but Win offers a good help system) HLP files. They#re always structured like a TOC. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
