[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: splitting large html files?

[Lance Simmons]

* fredjame <fredjame at concentric.net> [031108 10:21]:
> What for?  What is the purpose, and how does it give advantage?  I
> suppose I am just dense, but ...

When you're reading a large file, such as a novel from the Gutenberg
Project, it's better for navigation purposes if it's broken down into
smaller chunks, such as chapters.  You can find your place again easily
by bookmarking the page you were reading, whereas if you have one large
html file, finding your place is a pain.  Not to mention that a web
browser running on very limited memory is more sluggish when scrolling
through a 2M file than when scrolling through a small file.

In any case, as I said, gnuhtml2latex followed by latex2html does an
acceptable job of indexing and splitting html files, but it's hard to
believe there's no way to do it more directly.

-- 
Lance Simmons