documentation mini-bug

[Alex Tweedly]

Jon wrote:

> OK.  What exactly is "web notes"?
>
> :)
>
> Jon

It's a feature in the documentation (introduced in 2.5, I think).

At the bottom of the documentation window (where the "status" bar would 
go) there are two clickable boxes,
 Show mouse over text
and
 Download and show web notes

If you enable the second one, then when you view the doc entry 
(certainly  from the transcript dictionary, I guess from the other parts 
too though I haven't seen that personally), Rev will check on the web 
site to see if there are any user-added web notes, and if there are, it 
will download them and display (as though a footnote).  (btw - you don't 
need to scroll to the bottom to check if there is a webnote - if there 
is, the word "cached" will appear in the status bar)

(example - "abbrev". Possibly also "sort container" because I just added 
one there - but there may be a delay before it appears; it may even need 
to be verified by someone to prevent misuse).

If you want to add a web note, you can do so by clicking on the 
second-from-the-right button at the top of the window - looks vaguely 
like a globe with a + sign added. This lets you *edit* the web notes. 
What you put in overwrites anything already there - so please take care 
to retain anything that's already there. Note the stupid little pop-up 
editor doesn't do this for you - so you need to copy/paste from the web 
note. :-(

I thought (I was *sure*) I had seen a BZ reporting this stupidity - but 
I can't find it now. Anyone know if there is ?

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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