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Is it possible to link from one word on a page to another word on a different Booki page for index or for linking to further reading in the same book. |
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Hi there, It is possible to add links to other Booki pages/chapters. The easiest way is to visit the chapter you want to link to:
The link will now have been added. You will need to be careful however as this is an absolute link, If the book moves to a new location the link will become broken. Cheers, John |
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I think its not a good idea to link between chapters. You have t ask yourself - where is this content going to exist? In www.booki.cc? in another webpage made from templated output? in a pdf? in an epub? in another book which has imported the content? Better to refer to the content contextually ie by name or content type |
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Thank you for the answers.
I'm writing a software manual. It's most likely going to be read on a computer and therefore hyperlinking between pages seem like a good idear. Ex. if the users want to read up on a function used in a tutorial, they should be able to click the word in order to go to the more detailed description of that function. What I'm thinking of is something like the html anchor function, but linking across pages/chapters.
IMHO absolute links would limit the usage of a booki book too much. Actually using h2 headlines generate sub-chapters(DVD slideshow GUI example), which are linked to when producing a web pdf. So the question is - can these h2 headlines or chapters be linked from a different page/chapter(not using absolute links)? |
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you could use anchors but its all a little tricky. the problem is that (I am assuming you are doing html export) Booki creates templated html with the chapters innumerated in the pattern: chxxxx_chapter-url-title eg ch0001_inroduction ch0002_how-to-install etc...so. this is not a very good way for the output to be created since it means that you must know 2 things which are urrently difficult to know: what is the chapter umber of the chapter you want to link to and secondly what is the url title of that chapter . Thats not nice...we need two things in place to make it easier for you: * get rid of this chxxxx_ convention and * display the url-title somewhere so you could then make a relative link to it ok...so, what I suggest is that you send an email to the booki dev list (info at http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net) and put the title something like "luka:can you change the filenames that Objavi creates" and then in the body of the email explain this issue...just copy and paste it if you like (luka is the person who looks after the booki publishing engine). I will then bring the issue up with Luka. Also mention the need to display the url-title in the email... sound ok? |
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Thanks eset. I've created an enhancement ticket on this: http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/440#ticket |