
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
The really big problem is that the HTML for the index, which can be rather large, would be physically included in each content page. This could make
"Reece Dunn" <msclrhd@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:416186C2.5030707@hotmail.com... the
library documentation enormous.
The pages mentioned (e.g. www.lyx.org) use some form of server-side processing like PHP scripts to add the ToC information on the fly. This is not possible for off-line documents. There are, however, several possible ways around this:
I'm not sure of the relevance of the server side scripts. Do you mean that they have the freedom to tailor content to browser capabilities, or that they avoid doc-bloat by keeping just one copy of the table of contents? Either way, since boost docs have to be viewable offline, the only workable solution is frames, as I think you agree. Jonathan