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<li><em>To</em>: Morten Kjeldgaard <<A HREF="mailto:mok@imsb.au.dk">mok@imsb.au.dk</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: HOWTO vs mini-HOWTO [was: Linux Doc Infrastructure]</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Guylhem Aznar <<A HREF="mailto:guylhem@metalab.unc.edu">guylhem@metalab.unc.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 01:18:19 +0100</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: Kim Lester <<A HREF="mailto:kim@dfusion.com.au">kim@dfusion.com.au</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:gnome-doc-list@gnome.org">gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</A>, recipient list not shown: ;</li>
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 06:56:28PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
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> I propose that the distinction between HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs should be
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> abolished, because a grouping based on the sizes of the documents it is a
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> very arbitrary and non-intuitive distinction. In fact, some mini-HOWTOs
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> are longer than some HOWTOs. Approximately 2/3 of the mini-HOWTOs are
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> longer than the shortest HOWTOs!
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Aboloshing the distrinction is a good idea, but it would confuse people.
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mini HOWTOs are "mini" since they focus on a specific topic
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Guylhem Aznar, Linux Documentation Project: <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">http://www.linuxdoc.org</A>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@cu-portland.edu></li></ul></li>
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