On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 12:24, Tammy Fox wrote:
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:32, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:23, Tammy Fox wrote:
> > For docs created for RHEL, etc. we decided that the URL should be part
> > of the text since when the decision was made we printed the docs. So,
> > our rule was, if the URL is short, it should be inline text. If it is
> > long and might line wrap, include it in screen tags so it is always
> > rendered on its own line.
>
> Would you say that the suggested usage is OK, since it is doubtful these
> manuals will be printed commercially? I would expect users *might* print
> them locally for reference, but most reading will be done online, I
> suspect, whether off a local hard disk (installed from a fedora-docs[1]
> RPM package) or the Internet.
>
Sure. I think most of the Fedora docs are going to be read from their
HTML versions. So, I don't see any problem with having the URLs rendered
as footnotes in the PDF versions. It might look a little weird if the
text inside the ulink tags is the actual URL, but I don't think that is
a big deal for the Fedora docs. I don't recall turning off footnotes in
the Fedora stylesheets, so I'll look at it to make sure it is still
rendering them for PDF versions.
Thanks, I haven't had a chance yet.
Do we want the footnotes to show up in the HTML versions as well? I
don't think they do by default. My vote is not to show the footnotes in
the HTML.
I agree.
> If we can turn the footnote function back on for Fedora, that
would be
> great IMHO. Also, I have another minor suggestion (I think for the
> stylesheets) which I will post to the list and bugzilla momentarily.
>
> = = = = =
> [1] Hmm, maybe fedora-docs-{html,pdf[,others?]}
>
Couldn't resist using a footnote in a post about footnotes huh? ;-)
No, but fortunately I *could* resist doing it in this reply to a post
about a footnote in a post about footnotes! (Sorry, loopy from lack of
lunch.[1])
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[1] Should that be a new acronym, "LLL"? Oh no, I broke my vow of
footnotelessness! AAAAGGHH! :-( :-D
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE