From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 23 15:59:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78E4B5CB; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-x22f.google.com (mail-ve0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE2121D7E; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f175.google.com with SMTP id c14so1222177vea.34 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:59:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zsu2xLeQDTHrnYZIB/DaUlA+JH6QF8Q+4k4JSUEFGiM=; b=wzjh75TWnpdyNoal2KP9DaiCmCC/nn9HTLsMjrlXEqU49CsteERt1QPf4ZLJDE3LJM I5mCnIqLBXzGBtyzV8esmxuqVfOshKafiNHH5QCJCyKXR8w5dPv/Ke/Pl/ZlG6w1SQYj YTI9bltIK1jw8xgdfWG8W4KcTs3TkNisTw3B7ZEsdVM2cyeZBwuz6qdOq0nN8Q0JBREh wav0chECrEUq2gs5L52Dzwb8Jr2gKFDcwhQnf/7TGWcdID+6sNLaTrZ/eUfocvxgQaVj CSJX0/azuGk0zRkvOQPt+XaHCKAozg+hbkeKtFN9aI6keQpPiVQjSv53uzP6nrvSUnuq g+Zw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.193.132 with SMTP id du4mr465562vcb.39.1390492740143; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.168.135 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:59:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52E13ACC.2020005@FreeBSD.org> References: <201401221442.s0MEgd2o082802@freefall.freebsd.org> <52E075F7.7020105@a1poweruser.com> <20140123020029.GE52955@glenbarber.us> <52E1053A.8000608@a1poweruser.com> <834FD10A-0519-42F1-B804-DCE7428A863F@FreeBSD.org> <52E13ACC.2020005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:59:00 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: docs/144515: [handbook] Expand handbook Table of contents From: Thomas Hoffmann To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: Glen Barber , Gabor Kovesdan X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:59:01 -0000 On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > On 2014.01.23. 16:31, Thomas Hoffmann wrote: > >> Well, to focus this back on the original point, I'd like to see the Table >> of Contents for the Handbook take better advantage of the horizontal >> "page". I use a 24" monitor @ 1920x1200 and there is a lot of [wasted] >> white space on my screen when viewing the TOC. It takes me eight (8) mouse >> scroll movements to get from top to bottom (or eighteen (18) scroll bar >> clicks). It's got to be even worse for folks with small screens. It would >> be good if we could redesign the TOC to take better advantage of the >> horizontal "page", something that would work for large an small screen >> users. >> > As you state here, the list is already so long, that's exactly why > subsections are not included... > > >> The individual sections of the Handbook use the full horizontal "page", >> why not the TOC? >> > What do you exactly mean by horizontal page? > > Gabor > I agree, the TOC is already too long vertically. Adding subsections would exacerbate the problem. By "horizontal page" I mean taking advantage of the full screen width, for example, by using multi-columns or similar technique. That would get more info on each screen page. Compare the TOC with the x-config.html page ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html), which uses the full page width. -Tom