On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't had the time to read all the discussions related to the new > web layout of the 2.11 documentation, but wonder if I'm the only one who > miss the possibility to view the full table of contents with all > subsections expanded. I'm very used to search for some word in the table of > contents, when I want to find the appropriate section in the manual, but > this is no longer possible if I want to find the title > of a level 3 section. For example, an email the other day mentioned > the subsection "Distances and measurements" and I actually had to run grep > in the Documentation source code to find out that it was located in section > 5.4.3. Similarly, I myself referred to the "Piano centered dynamics" > template in a recent email and you cannot locate it easily if you search for > "centered" in the table of contents. > Even if everybody made it a habit to always include the section number > when referring to a section on the mailing list, you can be certain that > these section numbers will change more often than the titles themselves > so if somebody looks into the mailing list archives 3 years later I'm sure > that the section numbers will have changed so it will be hard to find the > section. > > I certainly realize that it might take too much space to have this > fully expanded table of contents in the left margin all the time, but it > should at least be possible to select to view the full version > in the main window.
That's not a bad idea, IMO. Some people have commented that too much space is being *wasted* in the Table of Contents pane, but I assume they are viewing the docs with a large monitor or in high resolution. On my laptop with 1280x800 resolution, the current TOC layout is the perfect width, but on the 1920x1200 monitor I am currently using, a fully-expanded Table of Contents would look very nice. Hopefully if we can implement a search box in the TOC pane with server-side scripting, the documentation will be much easier to navigate. But this might have to wait until after the 2.12 release. Regards, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
