discuss: `article' vs `book'?


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Subject: Re: `article' vs `book'?
From: David Merrill ####@####.####
Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:58:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20010718185823.H13098@lupercalia.net>

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 06:26:53AM -0700, ####@####.#### wrote:
> Should HOWTOs be written as `book's or `article's?
> What about mini-HOWTOs?
> 
> Is there some advantage to doing it one way or the
> other?

<book> is better for very large documents. We use it for our guides,
but use <article> for most (all?) our HOWTOs.

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