[pmwiki-users] PmWiki/DocumentationIndex

[Joachim Durchholz]

Hans wrote:

> another note on information accessability:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DocumentationIndex
> is now structured in a two column layout.
> 
> This was done with the good intention of making the page more readable
> I would think. But it has the opposite effect on me, as i find it
> harder to scan down a page when I have to go from left to right column
> and back all the time. I find the one column layout much quicker to
> scan. so I like to ask if there is any objection to restore the
> original one column list? If one wanted to make it nicer one could
> have a second column for brief explanation lines to the links listed
> on the left, as some section have already, but not in a tabular format
> yet.

I don't think that explanations would cut it. The page is already 
over-full - adding even more text would make it less manageable.

I'm not sure about the two columns myself. It does have the advantages 
and disadvantages that you list.

Maybe the page should just have two columns, instead of making each 
section its own two-column table. See 
http://durchholz.org/jo/testwiki/pmwiki.php?n=PmWiki.DocumentationIndex 
how it looks like without additional laying-out (which would most 
certainly be needed).

Regards,
Jo