Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

93.0. "Bookreader index problems" by AITG::WARNER (Ross Warner) Fri Mar 03 1989 11:38

    There are some problems with the Bookreader index. I couldn't find
    these elsewhere in the notes file, so I'mmentioning them.
    
    1. When an entry in the index is in a list or a subhead, clicking on the
    index entry sends you to the beginning of the list or section that
    contains the subhead. Sometimes this puts the text that you are looking
    for below what's displayed; you can find it by scrolling, but the
    tendency is just to think that it's not there.
    
    2. Sometimes text is screwed up in the index, for example, with
    a series of subentries, sometimes one subentry is misplaced and
    overwrites another. Also, sometimes there is a misplaced (?) word
    hanging around, covering text, and it goes away when you click on some
    other item.
    
    3. When there are a lot of subentries, you can't see the main entry
    when it's out of the window, so you can't tell where you are in the
    index without using the scroll bar and looking in the "location"
    window. It would be nice if the entries superior(?) to the subentries
    appeared in a box, when not visible in the window.
    
    4. It would be nice if, when an index entry says "So-and-so, figure",
    you got the figure itself when you clicked on it, rather than text that
    says "Figure 2-2 is an example of so-and-so", in which case you have to
    click on "Figure 2-2" and pop-up another window. This works for tables.
    
    	

    1. The finest granularity of information in the Bookreader database
    is the 'chunk' (subtopic). Thus, clicking on an index entry takes
    you to the top of the chunk, not to the specific place in the chunk.
    Finer granularity is on the wish list for a future release of the
    Bookreader.
    
    2. This problem has been fixed for the next baselevel of the online
    bookbuilding tools.
    
    3. This is also on the wishlist for a future release of the Bookreader.
    
    4. At the moment, we cannot link index, contents, or cross references
    directly to graphics, only to text.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary

See 118.7 for a way to code index entry so the figure itself pops up, instead of 
the reference in the text.

    Method in 188.7 works for tables, too.