Re: Change to documentation headers - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Change to documentation headers
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Msg-id 201102050107.p15176l03747@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Change to documentation headers  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Chris Meller wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > I do like the chapter title there.
> > >
> > > Looking at "Home", we actually have two of them.  The "Home" at the top
> > > left of the page links to the PG homepage, while the "Home" at the
> > > bottom goes to the top of the 9.0 documentation.  That seems odd.  Maybe
> > > we need to remove the "Home" at the bottom, or rename it.
> > >
> > > You could get away with changing "Fast Backward" to "Up" and removing
> > > "Fast Forward".
> >
> > I like the title and chapter reference at the top. The "PostgreSQL
> > x.y.z Documentation" title serves the same purpose as 'Home' at the
> > bottom, so it should be fine as-is. Making the chapter a link to the
> > same destination as 'Up' would make sense to me... You want to go up
> > to the chapter TOC and that's what I would expect to get if I clicked
> > on a chapter link (just as if I clicked on it in the main TOC).
>
> That is an interesting idea.  I thought we had sub-sub-pages, but we
> don't --- every subpage has a chapter that should be the same as UP.  I
> think making that title a link is a great idea.  I think we can still
> remove fast forward/backward as just being too confusing.

Oops, a problem.  On this chapter page:

    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/errcodes-appendix.html

there is no chapter name, and hence no "up" link for us, and we need one
there.  Perhaps we need a link to "VIII. Appendixes" there.  Peter, can
that be done?

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