removing 'changes' section from the online edition
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jun 1 18:52:03 UTC 2013
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Em 01-06-2013 18:26, Eitan Adler escreveu:
>> The Preface has a few sections 'Changes from the ____ Edition' which
>> enumerate changes made between print editions of the book. I would
>> like to drop them from the online edition as they offer little value
>> and are right at the start of the handbook ('prime real estate').
>>
>> They can be retained in the print edition where they offer a little more
>> value.
>>
>> Does anyone see a reason to keep them in the online version?
> No objection from me, I just want to bring it up again that handling these
> with a single-source solution would be nice, i.e. using DocBook profiling. It
> would also facilitate merges. This basically consists of adding
> edition="print" to the affected section of preface and then setting up
> profiling. (I can do it, just ping me if there is consensus on this).
Yes! I was just talking about this elsewhere. Could we do it so only
the non-print sections need to be modified?
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