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

[Ruediger Landmann]

On 12/04/2009 08:11 AM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> I'd drop the revision history, shorten the legal notice, and move the 
> copyright and legal link to the top. I'd also just use the license 
> acronym as a link to the upstream text.
>
> e.g.
>
> Copyright © 2009 Red Hat, Inc. and others. CC-BY-SA
>
>
> Where CC-BY-SA is a link to 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

OK -- I've streamlined the author and copyright/licensing information 
even further, per your suggestions.

However, I did still keep a last (further reduced) vestige of the 
Revision History at the foot of the document; I think that for technical 
writing, it's important to identify this revision somehow so that when 
an article ends up republished in a number of places, people can readily 
identify which version is the more recent.  Actually -- discussions of 
article formatting aside, I think that including the version number in 
the header could be a useful addition to Publican's HTML output... but 
that's probably another post :)

Also -- would it be possible to allow the abstract to be switched on and 
off? An abstract is a normal feature in a tech report or journal 
article, but not so well suited to a how-to (like this example) or, say, 
a product sheet.

Cheers

Rudi