From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200903310233.n2V2Xnb02553@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Adding an table of contents in SGML
In-Reply-To: <28586.1238466509@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
CC: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I would like to add a table of contents to the top of the 8.4 release
> > notes:
> 
> Resist the temptation.  If you have so many sub-sections that it needs
> its own table of contents, you have too many.

It is not that things are hard to find but rather that it would be good
to present a list at the top to give users a better handle on the
contents;  there are 276 items listed in the 8.4 release notes.  8.3 had
237, a 15% increase.

> > Similar to the one at the top here:
> > 	http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype.html
> 
> That is a chapter heading, not a section heading.

True, but it says, "Table of Contents", at the top of the list of
headings.

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