Unknown2005-08-18 12:42:07
I've been working on scribbling down the histories into a compendium and while indexing the contents page I had an idea. I'll show you a bit of what it looks like, then explain what I mean.
What I'm thinking is, would it be possible to have a bookmarking type feature that takes you to a specifically coded section of the book. For example, if I wanted to read about Juliana, I would input READ COMPENDIUM SECTION 3.2.5, and it would take me directly to the page and section of page where the section on Juliana begins.
I have no idea what would be involved in the coding of something like this, but I thought I would put it out there.
What spawned the idea was, interestingly, I was using the Nexus client to write the contents page and when I moused over and clicked '3.4.5', for example, it would act as a hyperlink and try to open a website through Firefox.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
CODE
1. Cosmogenesis
  1.1 Daughters of Yudhe
  1.2 The Soulless Gods
  1.3 The Son of Yudhe
  1.4 The Great Silence
2. The History of the Elder Wars
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  2.1 The Book of Dracnoris
3. The History of the Vernal Wars
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  3.1 The Rise of the Vernal Gods
  3.2 The Council of Nine
     3.2.1 D'varsha the First
     3.2.2 Tzaraziko the Enigmatic
     3.2.3 Klangratch, the Axe of War
     3.2.4 Shanth of the Quiet Mind
     3.2.5 Juliana the Evenhanded
     3.2.6 Kiakoda Guardian of the Green
     3.2.7 Vestera the Dreamweaver
     3.2.8 Dionamus the Healer
     3.2.9 Urlach, Master of Death
  3.3 The Final Working
     3.3.1 Towards the End of the Vernal Wars
     3.3.2 Avechna the Avenger
  1.1 Daughters of Yudhe
  1.2 The Soulless Gods
  1.3 The Son of Yudhe
  1.4 The Great Silence
2. The History of the Elder Wars
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  2.1 The Book of Dracnoris
3. The History of the Vernal Wars
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  3.1 The Rise of the Vernal Gods
  3.2 The Council of Nine
     3.2.1 D'varsha the First
     3.2.2 Tzaraziko the Enigmatic
     3.2.3 Klangratch, the Axe of War
     3.2.4 Shanth of the Quiet Mind
     3.2.5 Juliana the Evenhanded
     3.2.6 Kiakoda Guardian of the Green
     3.2.7 Vestera the Dreamweaver
     3.2.8 Dionamus the Healer
     3.2.9 Urlach, Master of Death
  3.3 The Final Working
     3.3.1 Towards the End of the Vernal Wars
     3.3.2 Avechna the Avenger
What I'm thinking is, would it be possible to have a bookmarking type feature that takes you to a specifically coded section of the book. For example, if I wanted to read about Juliana, I would input READ COMPENDIUM SECTION 3.2.5, and it would take me directly to the page and section of page where the section on Juliana begins.
I have no idea what would be involved in the coding of something like this, but I thought I would put it out there.
What spawned the idea was, interestingly, I was using the Nexus client to write the contents page and when I moused over and clicked '3.4.5', for example, it would act as a hyperlink and try to open a website through Firefox.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
Unknown2005-08-19 02:19:02
I like my idea
.Unknown2005-08-19 02:21:26
Sounds nice to have it as a feature. You could do it by hand, but it'd be neat this way.
Hajamin2005-08-19 02:51:43
READ BOOK PAGE #
Kayde2005-08-19 02:52:32
perhaps add a tagging system, where in the editor code you could 'tag' a line for say section 1.2. Then when you read journal, you'd read journal page 1.2 and it would take you to the tagged section of page 1, 1.2. I don't see where it would be THAT difficult, since the editor has line #s already, the tag command would just cue the line # that is tagged. It would definately be a neat feature.
Hajamin2005-08-19 02:54:31
Books are handled by IRE code, can't modify that... Which is one reason our libraries are taking longer than expected, hard to make cool things when you can't change the core of it.
Kayde2005-08-19 02:58:41
QUOTE(Hajamin @ Aug 18 2005, 08:54 PM)
Books are handled by IRE code, can't modify that... Which is one reason our libraries are taking longer than expected, hard to make cool things when you can't change the core of it.
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Well that's rather icky and definately puts kinks in your ability to be creative. Ah well. So you gotta read the whole page, -shrug- You can always do what most people do now and put each section on a seperate page. Yea, it's a waste, but if the base code can't be modified, it's what we got.
Unknown2005-08-19 03:30:00
QUOTE(Hajamin @ Aug 19 2005, 12:51 PM)
READ BOOK PAGE #
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Mmm doesn't quite get the specificness I was after, but oh well, if this is where it's at...
Corr2005-08-19 18:40:31
Working with what we have now you can put in your index something like this.
2.1 Dracnois book. Page 5 line 6.
2.1 Dracnois book. Page 5 line 6.
