discuss: Re: same text for both many HOWTOs and one Guide


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Subject: Re: same text for both many HOWTOs and one Guide
From: Shuvam ####@####.####
Date: 18 Sep 2001 16:31:01 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109182129530.19018-100000@sm.starcomsoftware.com>

> > > That way, we can either make it one large book which is a successor to
> >
> > Either approach is good. I like having a full guide, but if you really
> > prefer HOWTOs we'll go with that.
>
> In my opinion, there is a way to have both a guide and multiple HOWTOs from
> the same source.  Why not break the text into multiple files and use entity
> references to pull ALL of them into the guide and then separately into
> individual HOWTO docs.

Yes, we really like this suggestion. We'll try hard to see if we can do
this. That'll maximise the value we can extract from the text, giving
people a Thick Tome or Cute HOWTOs. :)

Thanks for the code examples.

regards,
Shuvam


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