Re: Suggestion to WRI for notebook navigation (frontend)
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- Subject: [mg51039] Re: [mg51021] Suggestion to WRI for notebook navigation (frontend)
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 03:18:26 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes. It WOULD be nice. Bobby On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:49:59 -0400 (EDT), Frank Iannarilli <frankeye at cox.net> wrote: > I've just been using Scientific Word (LaTeX GUI), which shares a > highly similar structured-document framework to Mathematica's > Notebook. > > I like Mathematica's section/sub-section collapsable enclosure brackets, but > it's still a bit of a pain to get quickly to various sections and > nested subsections, particularly if their brackets are collapsed. > > At the top of SciWord's window, there is a pull-down menu, providing > an ordered list of accordingly indented section and subsection titles. > The pull-down allows rapid scroll-and-pop selection to jump about. > The analog would be random-access seeks of a hard drive, versus the > sequential-access seeks forced by window-scrolling. The pulldown's > window shows the current title (location). There're also > next/previous and forward/back buttons, similar to a web-browser's. > > Gee, wouldn't it be nice... > > > > -- DrBob at bigfoot.com www.eclecticdreams.net
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- Suggestion to WRI for notebook navigation (frontend)
- From: frankeye@cox.net (Frank Iannarilli)
- Suggestion to WRI for notebook navigation (frontend)