discuss: Use for mini-HOWTOs (was: revival of the weekly news)
Subject:
Re: Use for mini-HOWTOs (was: revival of the weekly news)
From:
Terrence Enger ####@####.####
Date:
17 May 2003 17:07:37 -0000
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20030517131003.00ea61f4@idirect.com>
At 10:41 2003-04-18 -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
[snip]
>
>It would be nice if the author of the overview howto could review the
>supporting child howtos. In some cases, "supporting" HOWTOs could be
>regular long HOWTOs. For example, a network HOWTO could have long
>"supporting" HOWTOs on various types of networks. Does anyone have a
>better name than "supporting"? It has sort of an inferior connotation
>to it, especially if the supporting HOWTO is longer and took more work
>to create than it's overview (parent) HOWTO. It's a tree structure
>where overview HOWTOs could be (at the same time) supporting HOWTOs for
>a still more general HOWTO>
[snip]
Quite often, the relationship between two documents could be described with
the words "broader" or "deeper", and neither word suggests subordination.
