On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:09:44AM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> The Magazine is in fact a
> blog format, not a periodical. Therefore indexing would be somewhat
> counter-intuitive.
Definition of "magazine" in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary):
"A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations,
often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership"
Yes; "Magazine" is somewhat a misnomer. It was named before it really
took off, and once it took off, it grew in a direction different from
the name. But it doesn't really seem worthwhile to rename it, and I
don't think it really makes sense to force something that's working to
change to fit the name, either.
I don't find anything "counter-intuitive" in an index,
particularly in a digital document.
I was looking for an article I recalled seeing in the Fedora Magazine,
and found the absence of an index, or indeed any link of any kind,
bizarre (as I said) and inconvenient.
I don't see any particular reason to be _opposed_ to an index if you'd
like to work on one.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader