Re: index.html.in

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Montag, 11. August 2008 schrieb John Mandereau:
> 2008/8/11 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > Somebody should redo the index.html.in page.  (the main doc page)
>
> I just did it because I added translation status page, and BTW I could
> no longer stand typing lilypond-learning.pdf URL by hand ;-)
> But consider this as a quick'n'dirty update, I agree this page might
> need to be revised.

Thanks! However, I don't think the translation status belongs there. I think 
it should rather be on the developer page...

> > - do we list pdfs on this page itself, or on a separate page?  (my
> >  opinion is for a separate page; we want to encourage users to
> > download all pdfs, so that they get the nice cross-references)

The cross-references also work without downloading ;-) At least with Konqueror 
(using embeded kpdf as pdf viewer) they work just fine...

> I'm not very enthusiast at listing PDFs on a separate page; why do you
> propose this?  Encouraging users to download PDFs is not a good
> reason, a tarball containing only PDFs is definitely better for this
> purpose.  You could argue the page is overloaded with PDF links, but
> if we can suppose all users at least have a 1024x768 screen resolution
> I think it's OK.

I completely agree.

Cheers,
Reinhold


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