Purpose: discussion about the Where can I find a book about Tcl page
LV: Should I break this page into a lot of smaller pages, one per book?
JC: I think that might work well. One could prefix each page title with "BOOK:" for example, and have all books show up with a single search (sorted on last change date). Might be real easy to access, especially in local mode. 'Nother advantage: each book will have its own URL. Either that, or a separator line between each entry, would be my vote on this...
LV: Turns out, you can not use BOOK: since Wikit right now trys to treat it as a URL type , fails, and so doesn't do anything with the link. I am working around this for the moment.
AK: I would certainly allow to group a book and its reviews together. And with the new search facility even a non-existing short list would be no trouble, as we are able to generate it on-the-fly. We need conventions for the title, though, to make the latter work.
JC: How about removing and from these entries? And how about removing mailto and personal info, and creating the proper personal pages so that a simple "[John Ousterhout]" reference leads to this information? It saves work when an email address changes. We could take this further: instead of lots of references to the http://www.scriptics.com site, one could set up a Scriptics page, and then use "[Scriptics]" instead. This would be kind of deepening the hyperlinks, so to speak.
LV: Yikes! Another bug! Wikit ate the left and right angle brackets that JC put in!
AK: I see no point for '<URL:' and '>' either. And yes, having these personal pages would be a bonus. It's like the early databases, a network of references. Add in publishers, etc. too.
AK: Another point in favor of separate book pages. We are able to link back to them from the pages describing individuals. See Tcl'ers.
JC: Yikes indeed, my "<URL:" and ">" text got deleted, probably on the subsequent edit. I'll look into that.
JC: I propose to use "Book:" as prefix *later*, and "BOOK" for now to get around a WiKit limitation. The reasons for that particular capitalization will become clear when How to link to a page will be described. Soon. Meta comment: I find it quite helpful to be able to announce intentions by mentioning it as a new page.