[FM Discuss] next

[adam hyde]

hey Mikkus

this is a very good idea. Please can you add it to our trac :
http://trac.flossmanuals.net

(choose the 'new ticket' options - anyone can add tickets)

adam



On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 20:55 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> Having just performed a rapid scan through the individual chapters 
> of the OLPC manual that was created from FLOSS input, what I sorely 
> missed was a 'next' capability.  When chapters are combined into a 
> manual, it ought to be possible to navigate directly from one 
> chapter to the adjoining chapter.  [Most of the Linux documentation 
> is organized this way, with 'prev' and 'next' pointers inserted at 
> the beginning and end of each chapter.  Typically Linux documents 
> also put an 'index' pointer among these - but when floss manuals 
> provide the index as a sidebar, that pointer ought to be omitted.]
> 
> Seems to me the best way to provide these navigational pointers 
> would be to have FLOSS itself insert them into each low-level 
> document.  They should remain "inactive" until the low-level 
> document gets "combined" into a higher-level "container".
> 
> mikus
> 
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