Re: navigating web documentation

[Paul Scott]

Karl Berry wrote:
> (address@hidden  Hmm, never heard of it ... trying bug-texinfo)
>
>     >> Has anyone considered putting the navigation links at the bottom
>
> You're the first person to suggest it that I know of.  It sounds
> reasonable to me, although it would look kind of funny on very short
> nodes, as so many are. 
I don't see why.
>  Also, I think it might be confusing in the
> all-on-one-page-html output, since it would be right next to the
> pointers of the "next" node. 
Intelligently enough those navigation links are not included in the 
all-in-one-page-html output.
>  Have to try it, I guess.  A patch would be
> most welcome :), else I'll get to it as soon as I have a chance.
>
>     I think it's "Alt-P" for previous, 'Alt-n' for next, 'Alt-u' for
>     up. Maybe it should be mentioned somewhere in the texinfo output.
>   
When Han-Wen pointed the above out I realized I was not concerned about 
my original request any more.  I prefer keystrokes to the mouse any way.
> Sure, I suppose at least the main keyboard shortcuts could/should be in
> the manual.
>   
Agreed.
>     I know some open source web software can do this.
>
> I'm not sure who wrote this, but whoever did, just in case you're not
> already well aware, GNU is about freedom, rather than "open source".
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
>   
Don't know what your point is.  I was just suggesting that there was 
already free code to do what I had originally suggested (at least for 
the HTML version).
> Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.
>   
You're welcome for the part I played in this,

Have fun,

Paul