Urs Liska wrote > But clicking on "Web (split HTML)" brings you to a copy of the whole > website, just several directories below the original. > This is irritating, to say the least.
I agree that this does not make sense for someone browsing the website, and the text does not really explain what's going on with this manual very well. Maybe "Website" instead of "Web" as a tab/heading would help make things clearer, along with revising the text as you suggest. Another consideration is "duplicate content": https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359 As I understand it, best practices (according to Google) is to either minimize or remove such duplicate content or use "canonicalization" to indicate the preferred / canonical pages: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066 Usually this works by putting <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/etc/etc.html";> in the <head> of any non-canonical page, pointing to the canonical page. I think the links in the other manuals that point to the website manual are done that way so that they will work in a downloaded local copy of the manuals when you are offline. So that makes things tricky. In an offline local copy we have: manuals / website whereas on the website it's: websiteA / manuals / websiteB One possibility: use 301 redirects (in the site's .htaccess file) to point from the pages/urls in websiteB to the same pages/urls in websiteA. Then all the links in the manuals would work as expected both on the website and in local downloaded files. On the website people would always land on the "canonical" web pages (websiteA), and offline the links would still work fine in local copies of the documentation. Maintenance: the URLs in the 301 redirects would have to be updated with each release of LilyPond since the current version of LilyPond is part of the URLs. Under this scenario you could either keep or remove the link to "Web (split HTML)". I don't see a reason to keep it, but if you did the 301 redirects would mean it would just take you to the website's home page. -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Website-questions-Manual-Web-tp155674p155727.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
