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Re: Format of FAQ items
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lugnet.faq
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Fri, 30 Apr 1999 02:40:07 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> In lugnet.faq, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > In lugnet.faq, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > What about an outline format? I made a cool little utility that
> > > displays, in outline format, any sub-tree of the global ng tree...
> > > so from any category sub-homepage you can see what's there beneath it
> > > -- especially handy for things like loc groups and CAD and market and
> > > robotics, etc. Maybe that would be nice for the FAQ too.
> >
> > You mean like a master Table of Contents?
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> Yes & no. 'Yes' in that a master TOC would/could appear. But 'no' in that
> the master TOC would just be a special case of a general-purpose sub-
> hierarchy TOC, which just happens to start at the top. I built one of these
> just for fun a couple weeks ago for the ng's, showing their structure and
> their charters, and it actually turned out to be very useful. It was only
> about 2 hours of hacking, most of it HTMLing...
Jeremy,
Here's what I was chattering about -- here's a little demo of the prototype
ng-hierarchy-TOC generator that I use to help visualize the ng layout
whenever a question comes up...
A top-level overview, going 2 layers deep:
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap.cgi
Just the topmost layer of the .loc hierarchy:
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap.cgi?/loc/&d=1
The entire .loc.us hierarchy:
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap.cgi?/loc/us/&d=3
The entire .market hierarchy:
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap.cgi?/market/
A top-level overview, going all the way down to the leaf nodes:
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap.cgi?/&d=5
With 650+ groups, I think it shows things in a more comprehensible way
than than the other big lists*. (Note: the d= thingy defaults to d=2 if
unspecified.)
Something analogous to this could certainly be made use of for a FAQ
outliner, and hyperlinked into the group homepages for improved two-way
browseability. The same could that dumps out the question-outline could
even perhaps be used to give the questions & answers as a tree. Then you
could print out that big mammoth 500-page FAQ and read it on a trip that you
were talking about. :)
--Todd
* The other big lists:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/groups/loc/
http://www.lugnet.com/news/groups/
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| (...) Verrry nice. I have often wanted something like this for browsing Yahoo!, but it would never crystalize in my mind. If that made any sense. :-, (...) Could you give a formatting option to use a single size fixed-width font, wrapped at, say, 78 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Format of FAQ items
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| (...) Yes & no. 'Yes' in that a master TOC would/could appear. But 'no' in that the master TOC would just be a special case of a general-purpose sub- hierarchy TOC, which just happens to start at the top. I built one of these just for fun a couple (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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