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Re: doc-base 0.4 and other issues



On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 07:33:56AM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote:
> 
> Well, I just uploaded a new doc-base package that solves the bugs
> filed against the package and adds "dhelp support that doesn't suck".
> See the changelog for details.
> 
> We have two major policy issues to solve immediately (although it is
> definatly too late for hamm, of course):
> 
>   (a) standardize document registration format
>   (b) standardize document display heirarchy / index

> With respect to the proposed document heirarchy, I agree with Manoj in
> that the document should be more of an index than a table of contents.
> Furthermore, as an index, we need to allow crosslinking, in other
> words, a single document id may appear in multiple locations along the
> index.  I personally feel unhappy with every proposed heirarchy:
> Christian's is too deep; Marco's is too arbitrary.  I am wondering who
> if anyone here has done their homework: have we looked at FreeBSD's
> heirarchy?  At what we could borrow from the Dewey Decimal System?
> Are there other standards out there we could borrow from?

Please let me try to cope with (b). I already volunteered, and no objections
till yet.

I did post a lot of mails today (sorry for the delay). I will explain myself
saturday or earlier. I try to get all under a single (probably big) hat.

Marcus

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