On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:16 -0400, Tammy Fox wrote: > Lost in what sense? When it is printed? If so, the way we work around > this for the magazine is to have a print CSS that prints the URL in > parentheses after the link. Thus, you get the best of both worlds--nice > readable links in web format and printed URLs for printouts. We're not (yet) using a print CSS for Fedora docs, but that is regardless. For most of the world, print = PS/PDF. I'm not interested in telling them that HTML + CSS is good enough, partially because I don't necessarily agree with that. :) The recursive <ulink> style[1] came about because of broken tools in making PS/PDF output. If this is no longer broken, that is one argument against the recursive usage. Sometimes I think it's cleaner to use a direct URL inline. It's becoming a way we speak and write, that links are visible and have semantic meaning. This is what a Wiki does. I think it is a mistake to hide the WikiName behind "some Wiki thing" link text. For example, it has meaning to think of Docs/Beats/DevelTools/GCC and that full path. It teaches the reader how to find information. Hiding the path behind a link takes that how-to find information away from the reader and in the control of the author. To convert this into a rule around ulink, how does this sound? A. Until you can _prove_ that your PDF output is working, you must use the recursive <ulink url="foo"/> style. B. You may use that style whenever it brings more semantic meaning to the discussion. C. You may use a hiding-URL style <ulink url="foo">like this</ulink> whenever you want, as long as PDF output is working. The problem here is the FOP, if any at all, right? I don't think I have anything that builds I can test with. :) - Karsten [1] <ulink url="http://foo"/> -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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