Link to anchor location inside an entry.

Project:Mori
Version:1.1.2
Component:User interface
Category:feature
Priority:critical
Assigned:jlvalero
Status:active

Description

Is it possible to make a link between an entry and an anchor in another entry or in the same page, like in html? I should like to retrieve the target in front of my eyes and not be obliged to scroll or make a search to retrieve it.
thank you very much
jean-louis

Updates

#1 submitted by Jesse Grosjean on Fri, 2005-12-30 10:01
Title:anchor» Link to anchor location inside an entry.

This isn't currently possible. But it's an interesting idea.

#2 submitted by patjohnson on Fri, 2005-12-30 11:57

I would really like to see this kind of functionality. I had assumed it would be made possible when links between notes are added.

It would also be nice if I could specify a target window. By this I mean something like the following:
1) Create an anchor in a note A
2) Link some text in note B to the anchor in note A
2.1) Specify that note A will be displayed in the current window or will open in a new window
2.2) Specify whether the cursor will stay in the current note or jump to the anchor position in the new note
An important point is that if it opens in a new window, then if a window with the target note is already open it just changes the scroll position of that window to show the link target.

What's the point of all this? Here's one use: when working on a project you could have a single note that contains a glossary of terms. Each glossary item has an anchor. Wherever glossary items are located in other notes they can be linked to the appropriate anchor in the glossary note. So far this is pretty basic, but if you could have multiple notes open side by side then whenever you click on a link in one note the other note would change to show the target note and scroll to the anchor position. This would be great for seeing note targets without actually leaving the current note.

#3 submitted by BMEguy on Fri, 2006-01-13 03:44

Current implementation of links:

text -> entry

Ideally we would also have:

entry -> entry
entry -> text
text -> text

In a dream-world:

entry/text -> entry/text in another Mori notebook
entry entry [backlinks]
named links (not just that the two items are related but how they're related: supporting, conflicting, example, requirement, result, etc)

#4 submitted by bennyp on Thu, 2006-08-24 07:50

the best way to do this would be with [[wiki]] style syntax. Users could create [[links]] just by wrapping them in [[brackets]]