Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:56:28 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: Documentation:Update the INDEX of the documents |
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:08PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote: > > If folks do find the 00-INDEX files useful, my suggestion would be to > > make a way of automatically extracting them from the individual files > > and/or directories, and then making the 00-INDEX files to be > > automatically generated. > > Sounds like a good idea but How to automatically generate > the summaries then?
Well, for text files (including subdirectory's 00-INDEX files) we could have a convention which is the first line of the file should be a (max 60 characters) one-line summary of the file.
We would probably have to do something special with non-free-form-text files, including structured text files like Docbook files. So it's not quite so straightforward, but it should be doable.
- Ted
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