[publican-list] Formatting Articles, a discussion of BZ #494147

[Ruediger Landmann]

On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> The difference you are talking about is user controlled content and 
> not formatting, there is almost no difference in the way the same 
> content is formatted.
>

True. What I'd personally like to see in articles is even more minimal 
front matter. Taking

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-live-image/en-US.html

as an example, I'd prefer to see:

* the Product Name and Article Name combined into one line and reduced 
in size

* the logo gone or reduced in size

* author names, affiliations, and email addresses collapsed into one line

* Table of Contents turned off (or at least turned off by default)

* Legal notice reduced in size and moved to the end of the article (or 
maybe a footer)

* Revision history reduced in size and perhaps limited to only the last 
revision?

I think that this would better present a short piece (without the 
formatting overwhelming such a short piece of writing) and that the 
resulting doc would more easily lend itself to inclusion in a longer work.

Maybe I should mock this up to better illustrate what I have in mind?

Cheers

Rudi