joe BL wrote:


> i've noticed one reliable method of inducing this bug to manifest
itself: first, click thru one layer deep from the FrontPage, then pull
down the help/about screen, dismiss it, then follow a link back to the
FrontPage (it last to be a link, not the toolbar "home" button). every
time i do that, some of the links or portions of one link on the home
page will not be links anymore.

Thanks for this explanation. I'll trace the problem and fix it.

>
> also: #1 feature request from me and my wife: provide for arbitrary text to
be set as a hyperlink.
>
> reason:
> pepys provides a way of organizing interconnected ideas, but it is
> too
> cumbersome to represent each idea as a sequence of concatenated words
> with specific capitalization rules. This is because the ideas are
> generally not formalized, rather they are often represented as a
> sequence of natural words within the syntax of a normal sentence.

This is on my to-do list. It's good to get some feedback on specifics -
thank you.

>
> desired user interface:
> select the arbitrary word or phrase, then cause it to be a hyperlink,
whereupon it be would become underlined, and blue. example ways of causing the
highlighted text to become a hyperlink are, in order of desirability (but not
mutually exclusive):
> (1) button on toolbar that is a blue, underlined text "link",
> (2) ctrl-H from the keyboard,
> (3) menu item: format/hyperlink

My inclination is to incorporate all of these methods.

> thanks for writing this software!
Thank you for your comments - they're much appreciated.

Ian