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Robin Cover wrote: > Superior pedagogical strategy > may dictate altering the order of presentation in the > tutorial/primer/guide (vis-a-vis the spec's fixed order) to > match the learning style of the typical non-expert reader. > But with links, order doesn't matter so much: one "clicks" to the > related discussion that stands in the way of understanding > momentarily. As well as the example of Tim Bray's Annotated XML, I am reminded that there were (at least) three versions of the SGML spec in common use in the early 1990s: ISO's, Goldfarb's and Exoterica's inhouse version, all of which used different order or had different indexing and linking or annotations. I was playing with ideas for re-arranging the XML Schemas spec for nicer effect: one thing would be to collapse all the constraint boxes, to give a less interrupted flow for people trying to bootstrap their knowledge from it (and who will therefore try to treat is as linear narrative text and not reference material). Rick Jelliffe
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