How to handle redundancy between params doc and tutorial doc
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Description
As I said in an earlier PR, my aim is for:
- The parameters doc to be about what the parameters do.
- The tutorial doc to be about what the user can do.
There will necessarily be considerable overlap, both the text and in the examples, but I'd like to avoid excessive redundancy.
I don't want the tutorial to "link out" very often. The tutorial reader is entitled to have the relevant material in-line, not linked to.
I'm thinking about having the parameters doc retain its explanatory text, but link to the specific tutorial section for examples. This would make the parameters doc much shorter -- a Good Thing in itself -- and also make the reader aware of the tutorial doc -- possibly another Good Thing.
I will value opinions.
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Start by comparing the parameters documentation with the tutorial documentation, focusing on their explanatory text, examples, and links. The work is done when the project has an agreed boundary between the two documents and excessive redundancy is reduced without making tutorial readers depend on frequent links.
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- documentation
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