docs/144515: [handbook] Expand handbook Table of contents

[Thomas Hoffmann]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org> 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