From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Ada and Doxygen
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:00:18 -0500
Date: 2010-02-27T09:00:18-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur5o6vkwd.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.u8qzkix5hgxj9a@garhos
"Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>>> Further more, this kind of browsing does not allow pre-designed
>>> navigation paths (this is mainly random browsing -- random here, has
>>> the same meaning as with random file access),
>>
>> Well, yes.
>>
>> If you want to write a tutorial, that's a separate document, not
>> source code.
> That's closer.
> Why did you use the word “ tutorial ” ? (just want to know, as this
> choice may be potentially relevant)
Most documents I read that have "pre-designed navigation paths" are
tutorials. Or fiction novels, in another domain.
Reference manuals should not have pre-designed paths; they should
allow random access, with lots of cross-references.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-24 8:39 Ada and Doxygen Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-24 10:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-24 11:20 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-24 13:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-25 12:18 ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-25 13:31 ` Marco
2010-02-25 15:02 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-25 14:56 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 8:49 ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-26 18:42 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:00 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2010-02-27 14:25 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 18:43 ` Vadim Godunko
2010-02-26 19:02 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 20:04 ` Vadim Godunko
2010-02-27 7:46 ` sjw
2010-02-27 9:12 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 13:38 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-02-27 14:23 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:25 ` Stephen Leake
2010-03-06 13:41 ` Marco
2010-03-03 23:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-03-04 6:56 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-25 12:12 ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-25 18:31 ` Tero Koskinen
2010-02-26 10:52 ` Gautier write-only
2010-02-26 18:50 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2011-03-16 21:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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