User manual sub-sections

Simon Peyton Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Tue Dec 8 15:55:14 UTC 2015


I like it better. 
Better still to be able to collapse/expand.
But it should be possible to collapse-all and expand-all, so you can then search in the web page.

S

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben at smart-cactus.org]
|  Sent: 08 December 2015 15:42
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; ghc-devs <ghc-
|  devs at haskell.org>
|  Cc: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
|  Subject: Re: User manual sub-sections
|  
|  Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:
|  
|  > Ben, Austin,
|  > Could we see the sub-sub-sections of the user manual in the table of
|  > contents http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/
|  > The section titles are often very helpful.  C.f. the old version
|  >
|  https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/index.
|  > html
|  >
|  If you look at http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide//
|  you'll find that sub-sub-sections are now shown. Unfortunately it
|  looks quite cluttered now. I feel like it is now quite easy to get
|  lost in the forest while scanning for your desired section. Perhaps it
|  would make sense to make the sub-sections expandable but collapsed by
|  default?
|  Opinions?
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben


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