On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:04, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:
>
> > If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the
> > devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the
> > index-boxes.
>
> Christian, et al.:
>
> I believe the problem is not that index boxes are displayed, but that they
> hide the word or phrase from view. The footnote boxes are the same: there's
> a box with a "foot" label and to read the footnote it is necessary to expand
> the box. However, one can read the text without the footnote visible while
> writing and editing. Unfortunately, if a lot of words and phrases are marked
> for the index then the text becomes difficult to read, or unreadable.
The main problem is as you describe - the text is more difficult
to read with index boxes that hide the word or phrase being
indexed.
>
> > You should include a suggestion for how you think this display on/off-setting
> > should to be controlled... in the preferences, on a per document basis,
> > through some menu toggle, or a dialog etc?
>
> What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked
> word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've
> used ERT to enter, for example, '\texttrademark{}'. When I view the document
> on-screen, I see all but the closing brace.
>
> If index box entries displayed like this, rather than with the label,
> 'idx', I think Ed and others (including me) would be delighted.
Yes, I would be delighted with this solution. It appears
that it can be implemented easily making it an attractive
solution.
Alternative and superior solutions for me would be:
1.Normally hide any on-screen indication of index markup
and only display it by setting a "mode".
2.Highlight the indexed word or phrase with a visual
attribute.
3.Display a symbol next to the indexed word or phrase as
FrameMaker does.
Ed
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
