[documentation] the documentation site is too broken and lacks
formatting and writing style
puregin
puregin at puregin.org
Fri Jan 13 11:06:37 UTC 2006
On 12-Jan-2006, at 10:12 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>
> puregin wrote:
>> Hence whether a heading on a page/screen
>> comes from an embedded heading, or is a
>> structural title, is of interest only to authors/editors.
>> If given content is not *presented* in a
>> way that is useful to the reader, that is another
>> matter, but again, it does not have to do with
>> how headings and structure are represented.
>
> I do understand what you are saying, and have understood this. The
> main issue that needs to be addressed is how to represent the
> visual headings within a handbook page. This is the point where the
> conversation always stops. You are concerned about the structure of
> the book. That's fine. But I am equally if not more concerned about
> the structure of individual pages--how visual headings can be used
> within a page. Here's an example:
>
> http://cyberdash.com/files/misc/heading-example.png
>
> In this page, I do not want to break this into multiple pages (for
> the reasons mentioned about hyperlinks and wanting the reader to be
> able to scan the text). The structure of the book is already
> defined for this text. Headings here are used being used within an
> individual page for structuring as visual cues that would not be
> better served breaking it up into multiple pages.
>
You are confusing pages (as seen on the screen) with nodes.
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