Re: Two suggestions for documentation

[David Wright]

On Sat 17 Feb 2018 at 10:18:23 (+0000), Peter Toye wrote:
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> Friday, February 16, 2018, 4:11:32 PM, you wrote:

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[Who? This attribution doesn't scale well as threads lengthen.]

> > On Fri 16 Feb 2018 at 15:58:41 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote:
> >> On 16.02.2018 12:51, Peter Toye wrote:
> >> >2) In at least the Learning and Notation manuals, add an alphabet
> >> >with links at the head of each index. The indexes are (of
> >> >necessity) very long, and scrolling down them is a bit of a pain.
> 
> >> In the HTML versions, all the indices have this at the top and
> >> bottom. You are referring to the PDF? I don’t know why they should
> >> be different… but maybe just switch to HTML ;-) Or file a bug
> >> report.
> 
> > The NR has a navigation sidebar, attached. What's needed to fulfil
> > this point is just the ability to expand "LilyPond index" in the
> > way shown for "Changing defaults". (The "LilyPond command index"
> > is smaller and not quite such a problem.)
> 
> It's not the main index I'm asking about,

If you could define what you mean by "main index", a new term in this
thread, that would be useful.

Moving on …

> but alphabetic links to each letter in the Lilypond Index,
> which is very long and is a pain to scroll down.
> But apparently they're in the HTML versions.

[please wrap your lines for the benefit of text mail clients.]

I'm not sure how you could not understand my post unless you're
reading this list on a system that strips attachments. But I'll
reattach the graphic to make sure you get your own copy.

On the sidebar, note how the little triangle next to "Changing
defaults" has turned to reveal a list of six items beneath it.
Now imagine clicking on a new triangle placed next to "LilyPond index"
whereupon a menu of 26 items labelled "A" through "Z" would appear
beneath it. (This alphabet could be pruned of letters like J, Q,
XYZ.) Click on "R" and the link would take you to the relevant point
in the "LilyPond index" in the main window.

Clearer? A side-effect of doing it this way is that a hard copy
of the PDF doesn't have 26 useless navigational blobs printed at
various points.

Cheers,
David.

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