Re: House style for DocBook documentation?

On 2019-Jan-21, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> On 1/21/19 10:01 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2019-Jan-21, Chapman Flack wrote:
> >
> > > But the point's well taken that in /printed output/, that's of no use.
> > > Which is, in a sense, an inconsistency: in one format, you can follow the
> > > links, while in another, you're out of luck.
> > >
> > > Maybe a simpler transform for printed output, rather than collecting
> > > all URLs into one section at the back, would just be to follow any
> > > <ulink> that has link text with a <footnote> containing the same ulink
> > > without the link text, so it shows the URL, and that would be right at
> > > the bottom of the same 'page'.
> > Of course, the text would also be clickable, right? I think putting the
> > URL in a footnote is good in that case; it works both on screen and on
> > paper, which should alleviate JD's concerns.
>
> Yeah I could see that. I thought about that but was wondering if it was
> possible to auto cite?

Sorry, what do you mean with auto cite? Put all links at the end of the
section/chapter/book? That seems less usable to me (you have to find
out the page where the links appear, and make sure to print the right
pages)

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