documentation mini-bug

[Jon]

Alex:

Thanks for the explanation. All make sense to me, except for "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."

I can see no such icon.

:)

Jon



Alex Tweedly wrote:

> 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 ?
>