From: | Alexander Law <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] switching documentation build to XSLT |
Date: | 2016-11-23 14:20:20 |
Message-ID: | 1b0574bd-2cfa-e950-f881-914e68b7c9ec@gmail.com |
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Hello,
The attached patch fixes this.
Best regards,
Alexander
22.11.2016 21:47, Tom Lane пишет:
> I wrote:
>> I notice that whereas <xref> used to generate text like
>> Section 4.1.2.7
>> now you get
>> Section 4.1.2.7, “Constants of Other Types”
> I also find that for some reason, the results are not formatted
> consistently. Section cross-references are printed with quotes
> as shown above, but chapter cross-references have no quotes and
> instead the chapter title is italicized. See for example the
> various cross-references for GiST about halfway down this page:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/indexes-types.html
>
> TBH though, the more examples of this I look at, the less convinced
> I am that it's an improvement at all. We have an awful lot of
> parenthetical cross-references like "(see Section 1.2.3)", which
> previously were easy to ignore while reading, but with long section
> titles attached to them they quite interrupt the sentence flow.
>
> I can kind of see the point when printing on dead trees, but in
> any format where the reference is a hyperlink, I think I'd vote
> for dropping the title and going back to the old output.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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