Re: FORMAT-SPEC: .htmld

Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com)
Thu, 26 Jan 95 16:32:28 -0500


>
> # 2) What about Scott? The implicit rule of defining htmld is
> # "one html per document", like rtfd. However, what about
> # versioning, like a possible index and index-with-graphics
> # approach? Should we define the standard to be "the same html,
> # in possibly several files"?
>
> I disagree w/the implicit rule of "one html per document".
> Instead, shouldn't it be one central, focus, index html per
> document w/any number of supporting html?
>
> For example, say I was doing a page of indexed goo -- a table of
> contents, for example -- the TOC would be the index or focus html
> document within the htmld, and all the support or content html
> would be contained in seperate html files within the htmld wrapper.
>

My purpose in using a 'wrapper' .htmld like .rtfd was to be able to keep all the 'like' things together... I could have (and in places do) have subdocuments in .htmld directories, where there are sets of graphics that should be kept with the sub-documents...