User talk:Howard Beale

Good luck! --Panic (talk) 07:00, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! In one of your edits to the Nanotechnology frontpage, you mentioned that the TOC wasn't automatically updating. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, as the only such TOC's I am aware of are the ones you get by adding  to the code itself, and these only work for headings on the same page. Could you link me to an example of a page which has an automatically updated chapter listing? I've looked at the indices of many featured wikibooks, but have never seen any such code.  -- Howard Beale (talk) 07:17, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * TOC is the table of content, its the main page of a book, but on Wikibooks it is also the automatically generated list of headers of each page (the name doesn't really apply to Wikibooks as pages aren't independent of the works).
 * The comment I made was about the use of anchors, they aren't updated as the sections are renamed, personally I'm aware how complex a task it is organizing tocs, people like different things, even editors and readers will prefer very distinct structures. I have had over the time, many discussion about that important page of a book, one thing I personally don't like is extraneous visible navigational aids as they share the same problem of the anchors, someone has to maintain them, Wikimedia creates several structural problems when dealing with books but the use of the / does reduce work and provides a easy way of navigating the project's namespace ( see also Navigation), another mostly unused easy way of navigation is the use of the book category page.
 * As for the best approach I like as editor and reader take a look into The World of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) page, that structure will not satisfy everyone (it is modeled on the C++ Programming/TOC1). --Panic (talk) 07:45, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Appreciate the help, I understand what you mean now. --Howard Beale (talk) 17:40, 25 October 2009 (UTC)