[projectaon] Re: Entering a section number without a link
- From: Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:15:22 -0700
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8 July 2010 05:21, Jonathan Daugherty
>> What I do when I get to the riddle sections is hit the link to "Table of
>> Contents" at the bottom of the page, then hit the link for "Numbered
>> Sections", and then hit the number ("67" in the example). But, I'd be happy
>> with a direct "numbered sections" link added, since it saves a click. But
>> clicking through the ToC is just about as easy and doesn't require new code.
>
> Yeah, I expect that'd be what most people do -- but the issue is not that
> it's one extra click, but that it's unintuitive for those who haven't yet
> gotten the hang of the layout of the Internet Editions. The ToC link is
> there on every page; as borne out by the periodic queries and complaints
> that we get, it's not immediately obvious that it's the way to proceed from
> a "turn to the answer" section.
The primary sticking point is that this footnote must make sense in
all the formats that we publish or hope to publish unless we want to
go back and revise it once it becomes a problem, so I would prefer to
future-proof it if possible.
1) Not all formats will have linking capability (e.g. if someone
chooses to print the upcoming PDFs).
2) Not all formats will present a separate Numbered Sections page.
3) It doesn't make much sense to tell a person to turn to the Table of
Contents to turn to a numbered section in a printed book. (This is
kind of a corollary to #1.)
Given those constraints (any others?), how should we change the footnote?
--
Jon
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