- From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
- To: Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
- Cc: TeXmacs users <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: Browser buttons (RFF)
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:41:55 +0200
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:50:57PM -0400, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
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I am wondering whether the browser buttons that appear in certain
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TeXmacs styles can be made a more permanent and generally useful
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feature. Particularly, I'm thinking of internal links. When I click
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the mouse button over a page number in the table of contents (or the
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index, for that matter) I am carried to the corresponding part of
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the text. But if I want to go "internally back", what should I do?.
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I think that it is intuitive to click in the "back" button. I thus
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can navigate to and from the TOC, examining the text. This is
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specially useful for the index, where you want to check your indexed
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entries and correct/standardize some of them.
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Likewise, I think that it would be a useful feature to have an "up"
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button. It would work for nested document navigation (child to
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master).
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Anything sensibly borrowing from a browser interface is bound for
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immediate understanding from the users, as I see it.
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comments?
These are all very good ideas.
However, the way the "back" and "forward" buttons were implemented
last time I checked was tighly coupled with the Help buffer and were
not easily usuable for anything else.
So, little hope for this in the short term.
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-- ddaa
- Browser buttons (RFF), Alvaro Tejero Cantero, 09/22/2003
- Re: Browser buttons (RFF), David Allouche, 09/23/2003
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