Jumping between document locations
For the purposes of development, it is often useful (to the author) to link events in one location in the Document pane to another, even if that other location is technically in another Index Card.
In order to do this, we can create a hyperlink (see adding Emphasis) to another, named internal location.
To create a target location:
- Go to the position in the target Index Card required and enter a unique word or phrase that identifies this location. The text will not appear visually in the document pane.
- Select the unique word or phrase and select the [Jump Target] option from the [Emphasis] menu. This will wrap the text in the @@ symbol, indicating that it is now a target.
To create the hyperlink to the target:
- Go to the original location where you want the hyperlink to reside.
- Enter the normal text that will represent the link - very often, this is normal text which would otherwise be simply read as part of the document.
- Select the text, then the [Hyperlink] option from the [Emphasis] menu. This will wrap the text in a normal hyperlink tags - replace the link part of the tag with a hash (#) followed by the text used for the target.
For example:
We have written an historical text referring to the Harrowing Of The North. We want the initial mention of this phrase to link to a note in an appendix card at the end of the document.
Step 1 - Create the note in the appendix card
# The Harrowing Of The North @@harrowing@@
The Harrowing of The North took place during the reign of William…
Note that we have added the jump target to the end of the Header line, as all headers tags must be at the beginning of the line.
Step 2 - Make the initial mention into a hypertext link
While Jennifer drove around North Yorkshire and Durham, she occasionally heard the term [The Harrowing of The North](#harrowing), which she had not encountered before…
The term The Harrowing of The North will now jump to the appendix text when clicked.
Note: If experimenting with this technique, ensure that your hyperlink and jump target are some distance apart in your document. If the two would naturally appear on the Document pane on the same visible page in any case, no apparent movement will take place. A distinct, obvious jump to another location will only take place if the jump target is not currently displayed in the browser.
