Re: House style for DocBook documentation?

On 2019-Jan-21, Chapman Flack wrote:

> But the point's well taken that in /printed output/, that's of no use.
> Which is, in a sense, an inconsistency: in one format, you can follow the
> links, while in another, you're out of luck.
> 
> Maybe a simpler transform for printed output, rather than collecting
> all URLs into one section at the back, would just be to follow any
> <ulink> that has link text with a <footnote> containing the same ulink
> without the link text, so it shows the URL, and that would be right at
> the bottom of the same 'page'.

Of course, the text would also be clickable, right?  I think putting the
URL in a footnote is good in that case; it works both on screen and on
paper, which should alleviate JD's concerns.

> I wouldn't think it important to apply the same treatment when making HTML.

Right, only PDF.

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