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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:56:19 -0700
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Need help with SGML again
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At 9:46 AM -0700 10/15/03, Josh Berkus wrote:
>Peter,
>
>>  You should consider the documentation like a book.  That has two
>>  consequences:
>>
>>  1. Linking to anything that is not a formal object (having a title and a
>>  number) does not render well in print.  ("for more information, see
>>  paragraph 3 on page 15"?)
>
>I see what you mean.   Given that I do 95% of my doc browsing in HTML, this
>seems very redundant to me, though; I think it would be interesting to see
>how many users refer to a paper version of the docs.  We may find it's a tiny
>minority.

Well, just as a data point I DL/print the docs when I upgrade 
Postgres and keep the book on my shelf for reference.  I may be a bit 
of a curmudgeon, but there isn't a computer display around that's as 
high-quality and portable as a piece of paper.
-- 
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Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu