FYI, based on the positive feedback I've received, the new page is going live at: http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi It was suggested that I should break out the categories with a separate table under each category... and there are two issues with that: 1) I don't want the page to get too long, and if it starts getting too long then you really need a table of contents on top... and I'm trying to keep it simple; and 2) the dynamic generation of this page is currently done by a really simple python CGI program that I wrote. It just takes each really long line of a data file (contrib.txt, visible at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib.txt), splits the line on the pipe character ('|') and then wraps some HTML around it. So generation of a simple table is trivial. At some point in time, I *would* like to group the categories better - for instance merging all the cells in the table under one category (so, for example, the "Backup" cell would (currently) span 4 cells vertically). This just requires reading all the data into a data structure, with the categories in a list and figuring out how many there are, etc. I know what it has to do... I just don't have the time to do anything with it for the near future. But eventually I'll take a break and take another whack at it. That's the scoop, Dan -- Dan York, Director of Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +1-613-751-4401 Mobile: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-564-7739 e-smith, inc. 150 Metcalfe St., Suite 1500, Ottawa,ON K2P 1P1 Canada http://www.e-smith.com/ open source, open mind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
