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From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Possible improvement in Texinfo
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 06:31:26 -0500

He was surprised, looking at a PDF file, that only the page numbers in
the table of contents were links to the chapters themselves.

Could you make the whole title mouse-sensitive in the way he
expected?

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To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
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From: Ernst van Waning <address@hidden>
Organization: Infometrics
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 22:22:43 +0100
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Hello again :)

Finally I have understood what you meant all the time, sorry it took so 
long.


On 2018/04/03 18:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> From: Ernst van Waning <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 15:58:56 +0100
>>
>>>> The items in the table of contents do not look or behave like
>>>> hyperlinks.
>>> They do: the hyperlink is on the page number.
Perhaps due to my (quite unconscious) assumptions, I missed the meaning 
of your sentence.
>> As found and communicated yesterday, there are hyperlinks in the
>> documents, that is settled.
>> What I see in the current manual is a ToC that is not hyperlinked, I had
>> to open a side-bar to see and use the hyperlinks.  What I would have
>> liked to see is a ToC that is visibly hyperlinked.
> Once again, in the TOC I see here, in Adobe's Acrobat Reader, clicking
> on the page number to the right of each chapter/section name takes me
> to that chapter/section.  And when I move the mouse pointer to the
> page number, the pointer's shape changes to indicate that there's a
> hyperlink there.
>
Downloaded Adobe's Acrobat Reader DC.  It gives the same impression as 
Apple's Preview: only with a sidebar that is automatically displayed and 
reachable with View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panels > Bookmarks can I 
get directly to a chapter or section.  That works perfectly.

After this quite long discussion and reading the sentence I missed the 
meaning of another time, it finally dawned on me that we were not 
talking about the same thing.  Instead of hovering on the *text*of a 
section in the ToC, I should have hovered over the page numbers.  That 
works here, of course, both with Acrobat and with Preview.  Then, that 
is settled as well.

Maybe it is worth noting that there might be more readers who, like me, 
tacitly assume visible, colored, hyperlinks.  I had no idea that 
hyperlinks can be restricted to page numbers only.  How you 'advertise' 
that something is hyperlinked seems to be a matter of taste: if you 
dislike colored hyperlinks, that is up to you, of course.  But, as 
demonstrated, it may take a long time for readers who dislike mousing 
(like me) to find them :)

Anyway, I hope that my proofreading contributed something and did not 
cost too much of your time.

Kind regards & a good weekend,

Ernst van Waning

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