On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 07:33:56AM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > Well, I just uploaded a new doc-base package that solves the bugs > filed against the package and adds "dhelp support that doesn't suck". > See the changelog for details. > > We have two major policy issues to solve immediately (although it is > definatly too late for hamm, of course): > > (a) standardize document registration format > (b) standardize document display heirarchy / index
> With respect to the proposed document heirarchy, I agree with Manoj in > that the document should be more of an index than a table of contents. > Furthermore, as an index, we need to allow crosslinking, in other > words, a single document id may appear in multiple locations along the > index. I personally feel unhappy with every proposed heirarchy: > Christian's is too deep; Marco's is too arbitrary. I am wondering who > if anyone here has done their homework: have we looked at FreeBSD's > heirarchy? At what we could borrow from the Dewey Decimal System? > Are there other standards out there we could borrow from? Please let me try to cope with (b). I already volunteered, and no objections till yet. I did post a lot of mails today (sorry for the delay). I will explain myself saturday or earlier. I try to get all under a single (probably big) hat. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
