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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: Re: Amiga reader
- Message-ID: <OAHVENLA.92Nov16234319@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:43:19 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:49:06 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov16.184906.12282@vela.acs.oakland.edu> swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Texas Bob or Eddie Froman depending on the moon) writes:
- >I agree with this more liberated approach to cross-references; I think
- >it shows both a respect for atemporal writing (ie, including articles that
- >will be written in the future) and adds a touch of humour to see a wild-n-
- >crazy xref which makes you think, "Boy, I can't wait for *that* one!"
-
- >That's why TG! for DOS supports these "un-linked cross-references" and it
- >has built-in parsing thingies to automatically attach the xref's when the
- >other articles finally arrive, and allows the user the ability to delete
- >unwanted xref's if the target article *never* arrives.
-
- >BUT, on the other hand, I can also see Paul's main problem with these
- >dangling xref's: title continuity. If a prior cross-ref mentions "The
- >Hoopiest Frood in All of Creation," that's fine. But if the article
- >is finally released as "The Hoopiest Frood in Creation", then the average
- >system won't make the xref connection (because the title is different).
- >Bummer. But, heck, that's what us Editors are for! :^>
-
- I thought I'd use the article number for the actual reference, and titles
- just at the index. Would make it pretty hard to give as-of-yet-non-existant
- xrefs an article number (well, I could use something like 0A0 for all of them),
- and then scan the whole file for every new article to see if some xref is
- found... I think I'll just leave them as non-existant, and if an article
- appears later on, the xrefs can be updated by rebuilding the file, or by
- manually editing the xref to point to the right place... I don't think it's
- worth the trouble to make an independent xref-list, as I'm trying to keep
- the whole Guide in one file... Well, we'll see... I could always make an
- unlinked node containing all non-existant xrefs... I'll do the important
- part first, anyway.
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