Re: TOC: List of Figures

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TOC: List of Figures
Date: 2019-07-08 19:54:42
Message-ID: D0B6D499-0B67-4225-A908-141681E6F5AA@yesql.se
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> On 8 Jul 2019, at 21:43, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-07-08 07:20, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
>> To support the didactic method of media changes we
>> should promote graphics with a summarizing list at a prominent place in
>> front of the manual.
>
> This would make sense if we had fifty images spread evenly throughout
> the documentation, or moreover, we had an image for every topic. Then
> learning by just flipping through the images would be interesting. But
> we are not nearly there yet. Promoting a list of images now would just
> make those looking for that kind of learning sad.

We regularly include scaffolding for things to come in Postgres, I don’t see
this being much different. It will have just a few images now, but by the time
v13 ships we are likely to have a longer list which increase the value of this
further.

cheers ./daniel

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