Re: House style for DocBook documentation?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Markus Winand <markus(dot)winand(at)winand(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: House style for DocBook documentation?
Date: 2019-01-21 18:14:11
Message-ID: 4ad8c028-5bd8-8837-9662-98cfa9568e15@commandprompt.com
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On 1/21/19 10:01 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Jan-21, Chapman Flack wrote:
>
>> But the point's well taken that in /printed output/, that's of no use.
>> Which is, in a sense, an inconsistency: in one format, you can follow the
>> links, while in another, you're out of luck.
>>
>> Maybe a simpler transform for printed output, rather than collecting
>> all URLs into one section at the back, would just be to follow any
>> <ulink> that has link text with a <footnote> containing the same ulink
>> without the link text, so it shows the URL, and that would be right at
>> the bottom of the same 'page'.
> Of course, the text would also be clickable, right? I think putting the
> URL in a footnote is good in that case; it works both on screen and on
> paper, which should alleviate JD's concerns.

Yeah I could see that. I thought about that but was wondering if it was
possible to auto cite?

JD

>
>> I wouldn't think it important to apply the same treatment when making HTML.
> Right, only PDF.
>

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