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

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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?
>
> More thinking --- "PostgreSQL 9.0.3 Documentation" at the top center is
> already clickable, so that can act as the home.  Let's duplicate that at
> the bottom too.

OK, so here is a summary:

    o  remove fast forward/backward links
    o  add book title where there is no heading
    o  make book and chapter titles as links
    o  make the bottom footer match the top header

Can we backpatch this to 8.2 so all our online documentation has it?

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