Re: Re: Livedocs, the future]

> > Keep in mind that there will be two build modes; > > indexing for on-the-fly doc generation (for doc authors) > > and whole-docbook pre-generation (for distribution to > > mirrors). > > Are these really two different things? Yes and no :-) They are different in that you want on-the-fly mode while authoring/translating, since it is fast (that was the original idea for livedocs), but you need to configure the bulk generation mode for mirror distribution. > > I'm thinking of a situation where someone might want to > > render the header at the bottom, or on the right hand > > side of the main content, or do something else a bit > > strange. > > Currently livedocs just does this strange thing. The sidebar is emitted > after the page, with a nasty HTML trick... Yeah, nasty but nice: it allows people using text-only browsers to read the content before they get to the navigation. :-) > Good ideas! I also agree that most themes will be sufficiently working > with the default 'richly styled HTML', since it is very good to apply some > CSS on it... Yep. --Wez.