I'd like to greatly reduce the space required for it. Remove "New" throughout and the leading and trailing text and blank lines. Move the counts to the head of each section where there is plenty of space for them. Then the navigation would *look* more like this (most of the links in the example below don't go anywhere useful):

Newest Nodes

Discussions | Questions | Meditations | Perl Announcements | Cool Use For Perl | Code | Notes | Users

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Table of Contents in Newest Nodes   by demerphq

etc. (note that I didn't include hardly any font and style items for the example, just a quick simulation).

Update: s/,/ |/g.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Table of Contents in Newest Nodes (smaller!) by tye
in thread Table of Contents in Newest Nodes by demerphq

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