[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 wish: Keyword index

[Moritz Lennert]

On 12/03/13 11:21, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>  wrote:
>> I haven't followed this close enough, but could someone explain the
>> difference between the two ?
>
> Just open both :)
>
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/keywords.html
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/topics.html
>
>> And why (as an example) r.kappa should be in
>> the classification as keyword list and not in the classification as topic
>> list ?
>
> 1) The raster/vector/... pages depend on the *first* keyword.
>
> 2) The topics.html page(s) depends *only* on the second keyword.
>
> 3) The new keywords.html shows *all* keywords.

Except for the major (blacklisted) ones such as raster, vector, display, 
etc.

So, the main difference is how many keywords are used. I still believe 
that one such page should be enough (and more will create confusion), 
and I think keywords.html is the way to go (more complete, easy to use). 
But if others see a use in topics.html, I won't make a fight of it ;-)

Moritz