documentation mini-bug

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Alex,

Good idea but unfinished.
Deliberately I think.
To avoid managing stupid TEP :-)

Le 10 juil. 05 à 15:34, Alex Tweedly a écrit :

> 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 ?

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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