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From: | Ralf Hemmecke |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic |
Date: | Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:08:12 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) |
When you look at the tree structure you see a big mess and all the bugs !
Well, it is not really a tree structure. Each page can be linked to several pages both "up" and "down". So it is really a lattice (to a mathematician) or an ontology (to at least one branch of computer science).
Aha, a lattice. I didn't know. That makes structuring a bit more difficult for me. And I think (at least currently) it is also difficult for someone who just wants to read something from top to bottom. So actually, though it is a lattice, I would like to have an option to present the innocent (new) reader a (selected by us) tree structure of the information. If this reader got the main ideas from such a structured linear text (basically like in a book), he is probably more interested in browsing through the whole lattice. But I would like to give newcomers a linear view of our information.
Some time ago, I started with thinking about a (handwritten) table of contents that tried to impose a structure. I did not come very far since I got lost myself in the lattice. And I don't know whether a handwritten TOC is good. Basically, it sounds like the LEO idea, but I don't see a tool on the wiki that easily lets me combine pages into a new structure. My mouse is currently completely useless for such things.
Ralf
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