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Re: computist article index

jonnosan wrote:

On Aug 26, 10:02 am, roughana <andrew.roug...@writeme.com> wrote:


Hi Jonno,

Nice work on making things easier to access.

Are you interested in suggested improvements to the index?
For example, the "Discussion of 18 Sector Disks" only has one
reference in the index, however there are other articles that talk
about 18 sector disks.http://computist.jamtronix.com/Issue67/page-11.htmlhttp://computist.jamtronix.com/Issue76/page-18.html
(these may not be the the only other references,just the ones I've
found so far)

Also, Last Ninja IIgs has multiple entries in the index that could be
combined.
The reference to a copy protection entry for Last Ninjahttp://computist.jamtronix.com/Issue67/page-24.htmlshould really be
classified as a Last Ninja IIgs.
A reference to Last Ninja (not IIgs) can be added forhttp://computist.jamtronix.com/Issue76/page-18.html

Regards,
Andrew



Andrew,

I've made the updates suggested above - thanks for the feedback.

I can see the logical next step is to have the html surrounding each
page also include all the current index entries that point to that
page, along with a form to let people add new entries for anything on
that page that should be indexed but currently isn't. I should also
let people add any comments to the page - that would also make it
easier for these articles to show up as meaningful results in a google
search.

RIght now I'm hanging around the house waiting for my wife to say it's
time to head to hospital to deliver our 2nd kid, so I might start on
that feature but can't guarantee to complete. Any volunteers with some
web dev chops like to help out?


Far out--congratulations almost!


BTW I did experiment with having each page have an OCRed version of
the scan, but the results were consistently too much like line noise
to be any use as google juice.


I was just going to suggest trying to make it text-searchable.
Acrobat 4 was, IIRC, the last version to include "textification"
of a graphic PDF.  I've found it to work pretty well on "real"
PDFs, but not so well with some third-party "PDF"s.

-michael

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