From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: TOC: List of Figures
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 14:37:58 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-07-02 10:13, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
>> After the integration of figures into the documentation it may be
>> helpful to extent the TOC with a 'List of Figures'. Any opinion?
>>
>> If yes: The same for 'List of Tables' and 'List of Examples'?
> I have never found these useful. What would you use them for? Who goes
> to the documentation (or any other book-like material) thinking, I'm in
> the mood to look at some tables today, let's see what's in them.
+1. I have a vague recollection that we once had such lists in the
TOC (because that was the default behavior for whatever toolchain we
were then using) and later took them out precisely because they were
useless. Not sure how a list of figures would be any more useful.
regards, tom lane
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