Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 19. September 2008 schrieb Mark Polesky:
> It's nice to see the progress with the new docs! I have 3 comments:
>
> 1. Is anyone else wanting "breadcrumbs navigation"? So often after
>    I've looked something up in the docs, I find myself deep inside
>    and if I want to switch from NR to IR, for example, I either need
>    to click up the many directory tree links or keep hitting the
>    back button (which follows my typically long, convoluted route in
>    reverse), or I need to go to the address bar, highlight and delete
>    the "Documentation/user/lilypond/Doubling-a-note-with-slurs-_0..."
>    (which can involve scrolling horizontally through the address bar).
>    With breadcrumbs, if I'm out on a limb, I can pick exactly which
>    branch I'd like to return to with one click.

What exactly do you understand under "breadcrumbs navigation"? The last, say, 
five visited pages? That's not possible in static html pages, as it needs 
session management and server-side scripting...

> 2. In the new docs, once in the LM or the NR or whatever, there's
>    apparently no link back to the main (dir) index/start page. I
>    think that's bad, because you should never trust a browser's back
>    button. And if an unfamiliar visitor follows a link to an inside
>    page, the mysterious elusiveness of the start page could be
>    frustrating.

Yes, that's a wish often heard, and I've noted it. That would be really easy 
to implement (e.g. just hardcode a link to "../" at the top of the TOC. I 
just never got around to implement it. Is anyone up to pick this really 
low-hanging fruit and implement it in the .init file?

Cheers,
Reinhold
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