[cl-faq] Updated online faq
Peter Seibel
peter at gigamonkeys.com
Wed Jan 11 14:51:11 CST 2006
On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Justin Heyes-Jones wrote:
> It looks nice rendered like that.
>
> Are you going to change the format to have a nested menu of
> questions first which then link to the answers? That's a more
> typical format.
Probably. Though not too deeply nested. When I was working on my book
I read Tufte's rant about Powerpoint and one of his points was that
deeply nested hierarchies are a terrible way to present information.
He pointed out that Feynman managed to write his great 3-volume set
of physics books with no deeper nesting than chapters and sections, a
policy I used when writing PCL. So I expect to organize the FAQ into
sections and then just order the questions within each section.
But, as you can probably tell, I've made no attempt yet at organizing
anything.
-Peter
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