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Old 03-10-2008, 08:22 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by moz View Post
Firefox doesn't do that for me, neither does IE. Is there a way to get the PRS505 to display that, or are you talking about using a PC and some kind of program to do it? Does anything in LibPRS allow me to search for text and get the reference you're talking about?

Even if so, as a general solution it's not very elegant. At least the title+text approach works for existing documents and software without requiring the user to find a program that does tricks. For many references you can use the section title to narrow it down a great deal, and ideally they'll use hierarchical numbering to make even more compact, but for the general case we still something.
From a programming perspective adding the ability to do that is trivial. If you're going to advocate title+text, you may as well drop the title and leave just the text (since with search, you don't need the title at all), but then your reference becomes more like an extract.
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