Knowl'ing an xref

[Charles M]

This is a low-priority suggestion since workarounds exist, though not trivially implemented.

In one of my current book projects, I have the code

<xref ref="thm-euler-circuit" text="title" />.

It would be helpful to have an @knowl option so that the hyperlink would open a knowl with the statement of the theorem instead of redirecting the reader to the "in context" statement of the theorem.  Suggested code would be

<xref ref="thm-euler-circuit" text="title" knowl="yes" />,

where @text is clearly optional.

The default behavior should be knowl="no".

A @knowl option could be added to any xref (theorems, notes, remarks, figures, etc.) by the author.

The intended purpose of this would be to enhance reading continuity be keeping the reader at the current position while still allowing a reading of the full theorem (figure, etc.).  This is how bibliographic references are already handled by PreTeXt.

One added power of such a change lies in PreTeXt's ability to improve consistency in a book;  i.e., xref "remembers" whether a cited item is a theorem, lemma, corollary, proposition, etc., and it remembers the title when provided.  (This alone has made my authoring immeasurably easier.)

Regards,

Charles

[David W. Farmer]

I am confused.

When you xref something, isn't the default behavior in the HTML
version an knowl?

Or are you saying that a knowl is the default, and you want to change the
default?

Regards,

David

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[Mitch Keller]

I can confirm that an xref using title does provide a knowl, as I just tested in one of my projects. Perhaps Charles has used something in Subsection 45.5.25: xref Options to adjust the options?

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[Charles M]

Dear All:

My sincere apologies.  David and Mitch, you are correct.  The feature that I want is already there.  My mistake was viewing my current project only in Live Preview in VS and not checking the behavior in the build on Safari.

Please pardon my impulsiveness.

Regards,

Charles

[David W. Farmer]

Dear Charles,

No problem, and this actually is something we need to warn people
about. If you want to see something really confusing, try clicking
on an xref in pretext.plus .

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