At 9:46 AM -0700 10/15/03, Josh Berkus wrote:
>Peter,
>
>> You should consider the documentation like a book. That has two
>> consequences:
>>
>> 1. Linking to anything that is not a formal object (having a title and a
>> number) does not render well in print. ("for more information, see
>> paragraph 3 on page 15"?)
>
>I see what you mean. Given that I do 95% of my doc browsing in HTML, this
>seems very redundant to me, though; I think it would be interesting to see
>how many users refer to a paper version of the docs. We may find it's a tiny
>minority.
Well, just as a data point I DL/print the docs when I upgrade
Postgres and keep the book on my shelf for reference. I may be a bit
of a curmudgeon, but there isn't a computer display around that's as
high-quality and portable as a piece of paper.
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