Roger - I think this is a good idea. Web browsing is different than printed pages and it makes sense to play to its strengths.
Regards, Devon On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Roger Stokes < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
