On the topic of indexing HTML documents, there is something to be said
for making the document one big page, rather than a page per chapter.
With one big page, you can use your browser's FIND function to efficiently
search the entire document: fast searching can work as well as or better
than a traditional index.
For an experiment I have put on the web a one-big-page version of "Learning
J"
at
www.rogerstokes.free-online.co.uk/onepage.htm
and I would be glad to know if people think this is a good idea.
There is also a version better for downloading (includes the separate .gif
files)
www.rogerstokes.free-online.co.uk/onepage.zip
Regards
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Rich" <[email protected]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] A couple of gripes about the JSoftware site
>I would be overjoyed to get a hot-linked index. I'll give you the
> Microsoft Word source, or the HTML that it produces when I create a Web
> page, and you can go to it.
>
> If I give you the source, you could add to the index callouts if you
> like. I found that to be a surprisingly onerous task.
>
> The web pages are built as follows:
>
> I save the source in Word as HTML;
> I run a script to find the chapters & split them into pages;
> the script installs the navigation header/footer in each page.
>
> The Index chapter is deleted because it is meaningless.
>
> If this seems OK, email me off-list & we'll get started.
>
> Henry Rich
>
> Hahn, Harvey wrote:
>> Henry Rich wrote:
>> |Oh, you're talking about the index... no, there is no online
>> |link for it, because it is just a list of page numbers. I don't know
>> |how to generate links to the pages automatically from Microsoft Word.
>> |So, the index is available only in the printed copy of the book.
>>
>> I'm a librarian (retiring in just a couple of months), and indexes are
>> our stock in trade. ;-) Would you be willing to give me permission
>> (once I get a copy of your book, which is on my "to do" list) to create
>> a hotlinked index for the online version of your book? (Or would you
>> prefer to do that yourself?)
>>
>> Harvey
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