"Daniel Mayer" <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
It does bring up the interesting point that
perhaps there should be a
little more editing in making a paper version besides just validating
articles. For example, it might make sense to collate these all into
one article for print publication.
That can be done via transclusion. A container article would have =Level
1=
headings that would have the names of each component article. Then in a
print
version, {{main|blah}} would need to be changed from 'Main article:
[[blah]]'
to 'For further detail see [[blah]]' (might be a good idea anyway).
Wouldn't that be nice if it would work; but I think that would introduce an
awful lot of redundancy and tedious repetition, since most of the component
articles include phrasing to introduce and contextualize them as standalone
articles. This might be a good way to generate an initial rough-cut, but
some editing would certainly be needed. Otherwise we'd end up with the
inverse of what technical writers used to call "shovelware", where paper
documentation was simply dumped online with very little thought given to
organization, presentation, or usability.
Bkonrad