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Originally Posted by Hitch
Myself, I think this is a very small price to pay for the usability of the links.
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It is a high price to pay when the text has colored words with no understandable (to the user) reason. And it does not increase usability. Rather the opposite. The words are not links, so showing them as if they were is misleading and confusing.
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The reader needs to know what they are linking to, in addition to the functionality of jumping back and forth.
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In hypertext, such things are normally not indicated at all. Maybe they should (and you can do that in CSS nowadays with :target, though I’m afraid e-book readers won’t support it), but definitely not in a misleading manner that shows something as a link when it is not.
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I assume you mean that each span would have its own ID...you could, you know, just do it quasi-manually.
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Of course. The question is whether Sigil can be improved so that such clumsy fixes are not needed. This would just be a matter of changing the name of the tags generated, from “a” to “span”, when generating index markers (which are supposed to be link destinations, not links).
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Can you change your base anchor link styling, or do you need the blue links or (default display) link behavior elsewhere?
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Changing the styling of all links would be a wrong way to fix the problem that some non-links look like links. Of course links need to be different from normal text.