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- > From: Jim Davis <davis@dri.cornell.edu>
- > I would like to be able to keep multiple topics in a single file
- > (cross referenced by anchors of course) and also guarentee that the
- > user does not see material from the next subject. I use Viola with
- > WWW, and it's distracting to see irrelevant material on the same
- page
- > of the window.
-
- Do you really need them in a single document? Within a document, the
- user metaphor is a scrollable area. The user often has a choice of
- window size on that area. It is unwise to make assumptions about
- that.
-
- I think you are looking for page jumps, and so logically what you
- wnat is a set of documents. Now you could of course store these in
- one file and write a little server script which would extract the
- documents from the file. (Note distinction between "document" = unit
- of data carried over the net per fetch, and "file" which is a concept
- local to the server.
-
- This is what Mike Sendall has done with his STING glossary, for
- example (I think).
-
- It would also be neat for mailbox files.
-
- Tim BL
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