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Originally Posted by Hitch
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Hmm, that does look nice, that probably would work better than the Chrome highlighted scroll bar like I mentioned. This is how Mantano does it on my phone:
Definitely better at the Reader level, than trying to come up with some convoluted highlighting via CSS.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Done now. Tex has demonstrated, with his speedy fingers, better than I, why the whole idea of creating massive indices is a huge waste of time, for anything more complex than "See Spot Run."
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And yeah, as was mentioned, a crappy/easy Index (which mentions EVERY SINGLE USAGE of the word) will only ever able to be "as good" as the search. It would be infinitely worse to use though, because you have to remember "oh wait, did I click the [15] or the [16]? Did I click on the [f] or [g]?").
I could maybe see a usage for an Index that has a more BROAD Chapter-based coverage though. "Deflation, Chap. 1.2, Chap. 3.4, Chap. 4.5.1"... although that TOO takes a ton of extra work above the typical Print Page Index you get.... (And again, no easy way to automate this).
Although a Chapter-type Index WOULD be better suited for the digital book era. :P
Side Note: One of my big pet peeves is referencing pages in books, there could be a multitude of different formats for the same exact book, (6"x9" Print Edition, 5.5"x8.5" Mobile Edition, 8.5"x11" Large Print Edition, EPUB, MOBI, HTML version on a website). It is best to toss page numbers in the garbage, and go with a more general/broad location based system if you are referencing something:
"As Bastiat mentioned in Chapter 3 on Deflation" would be superior to "As Bastiat mentioned on page 53 on Deflation". Chapter 3 works as a reference in ANY of those multitude of formats, but "page 53" only works in THAT specific edition/page size/publication date/whatever.
Now, most books have multiple formats, and people will be choosing whichever one suits them best.
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Originally Posted by Julanna
geez, if you are wanting to convince me of something going off at me is not the way to do it.
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