Quote:
Originally Posted by 1v4n0
Thanks hitch. I had very similar concerns in fact. Sigil's index does link to <p>s, and it is relatively simple to create one when it's just one analytical index (most commonly with personal names). It is however a much longer task to recreate the indexes when there are more than one (for example one for persons, one for places, one for books, etc).
|
The challenge isn't linking TO the paragraphs, really. It's everything else.
- How do you get the reader back to the index, without the back button?
- What do you do when you have multiple entries going to the same or roughly same location, if you're also trying to get the reader back to where they were, in the index?
- What do you do with the many-to-one links, in either direction? From the index to the pages/paragraphs, or, worse, BACK again? (This is more of the first two bullets, but...)
The problem has never been, really, getting people
from the index
to the relevant content, if the customer is willing to pay, (as it takes much longer, obviously, than Real Page Numbers linking) and is
also willing to ensure that you know
WHERE those page links are really meant to land--it's everything else that goes with it.
Hitch