A year or so ago I mentioned that I thought it would be good idea for SD-6 to have an index of macro names. I haven't done anything about that yet, but I haven't forgotten about it.
More recently, it seems to me that the document has gotten fairly cumbersome. I'm starting to think that it would be helpful if all the rationale (including examples) appeared in a separate HTML file from the tables, even if it were logically considered part of the same document. It seems to me it might also simplify the maintenance of the index if it were in a separate HTML file. Does anyone think the idea of splitting up the logical document into separate physical documents would be particularly good or bad? On a somewhat related topic, as an experiment I have introduced zero-width spaces into some of the longer macro names. The idea was to try to get the tables presented in a more reasonable width. OTOH, I'm afraid that will tend to mess up searches for the macro names. OYAH, if we had an index, impacting string searches would be less serious. And here's another idea that has occurred to me. Today, in the rationale section, I have HTML comments that name a paper's author, and the contributor of whatever rationale or example we have. But it might be useful to have that information available in the content of the document, so people can easily find stuff that's relevant to them (without having to dig into the HTML). To make that work would really require CSS tricks -- but the way SD-6 is currently published on isocpp.org (i.e. wiki-like markdown), CSS can't really be used. So even if we don't want to split up the document, we might want to change the way SD-6 is hosted on isocpp.org. Any thoughts? Clark _______________________________________________ Features mailing list [email protected] http://www.open-std.org/mailman/listinfo/features
