From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: House style for DocBook documentation?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:01:36 -0300
Message-ID: <201901211801.sqxe6hoejajg@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C45F74D.9040908@anastigmatix.net>
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.
> I wouldn't think it important to apply the same treatment when making HTML.
Right, only PDF.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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