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Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections |
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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:15:42 +0200 |
2007/9/10, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > At the very least, there are more (and more complex) things you can do
> > with dynamics (in Lilypond), and so that section alone would be long
> > enough to deserve its own HTML page.
>
> I'd certainly say so... but there's a large element of "the customer is
> always right" here.
>
> The all-in-one HTML page is **5 megs**. I'm astounded that so many
> people (ie more than 0) are choosing to download that monster _every
> time_ they want to look something up in the docs. That's a terrible
> waste of bandwidth, especially if you consider that the answer they're
> looking for is probably 1k of text and 100k of example picture. To me,
> that sounds like a terrible indictment of how badly organized the docs are.
>
>
> Let me phrase this question differently:
> - if you currently use the all-in-one HTML page, how could we organize
> the non-all-in-one docs such that you use them?
I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but isn't this something
that should be handled by makeinfo? It has a --split-size argument,
but that only works for info and plain text. If we could set size
limits to html files too, wouldn't that solve the problem?
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, (continued)
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Kieren MacMillan, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Graham Percival, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Valentin Villenave, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Kieren MacMillan, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Valentin Villenave, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Kieren MacMillan, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Rune Zedeler, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Francisco Vila, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Rune Zedeler, 2007/09/10
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections,
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, John Mandereau, 2007/09/11
- Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Erik Sandberg, 2007/09/12
Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Juergen Reuter, 2007/09/10
Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections, Mats Bengtsson, 2007/09/11