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Saturday, February 17, 2018, 2:49:11 PM, you (David Wright) wrote:
> 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.]
Sorry, that's the way my email client is set up. I'll investigate adding a name here instead. Bound to be somewhere in its macro language.
>> > 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.]
Mine's set up to auto wrap but it doesn't seem to work :(
> 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.
Sorry i misread.
> 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.
Yes, that's another way of doing it. Better than my idea.
Doesn't invalidate the point that it's needed, though.
> 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.