References to external resources

Jan Rusnacko jrusnack at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 19:53:39 UTC 2014


Pete, Eric: thank you guys for your responses !

On 03/24/2014 06:21 PM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:35:01AM +0100, Jan Rusnacko wrote:
>> These are barely visible and don`t work well in text - see footnote [1]
>> or [2] in Security Guide above.
> 
> Yeah, this is a problem in the brand.  I should probably file a bug for
> this so we can formally look at it.
> 
>> The only other way I can now think of is to verbosely refer to external 
>> resources, e.g. "... (see RFC 2616)" with ulink to rfc. However, I also
>> like to keep all relevant references together, so I would also update
>> References section, which works but its not a footnote, so lacks
>> backreference to text.
> 
> +1
> 
> The links get pulled out in the PDF version, though, so we'll be back to
> externally shown links.
> 
>> What is your preferred way to make references ?
> 
> Still trying to find one.  What you found in the Security Guide was an
> experiment.  :/
> 
> -- Eric
> 
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