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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



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27 14:00 UTC|newest]

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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