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Re: HOWTO vs mini-HOWTO [was: Linux Doc Infrastructure]
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 06:56:28PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> I propose that the distinction between HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs should be
> abolished, because a grouping based on the sizes of the documents it is a
> very arbitrary and non-intuitive distinction. In fact, some mini-HOWTOs
> are longer than some HOWTOs. Approximately 2/3 of the mini-HOWTOs are
> longer than the shortest HOWTOs!
Aboloshing the distrinction is a good idea, but it would confuse people.
mini HOWTOs are "mini" since they focus on a specific topic
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