Re: two issues with interactive hyperlinks (please comment)

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>]

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> Pablo Rodriguez <mailto:oinos@gmx.es>
> 24. Februar 2016 um 10:01
> On 02/23/2016 09:33 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 2/23/2016 12:21 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> Well, Sumatra works fine with this concrete feature (at least, this is
>>> my experience). And mupdf is the only exception in this regard.
>> hm, sumatra uses the mupdf engine
>
> Well, this is more complex than it seems. Right now, SumatraPDF cannot
> simply merge the latest version of fitz
> (https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/344#issuecomment-156269119).
>
> And SumatraPDF has this particular feature implemented.
>
>>> Besides that, all other links use named destinations, so why are they so
>>> problematic (not from the coding perspective) when it somes to
>>> footnotes, references and indices? Sorry, but I don’t understand the
>>> difference.
>> because using named destinations has no advantage when ther eis no view
>> and not all hyperlinked constructs have views (either because it's
>> impossible due to lack of structure i.e. where does something begin/end,
>> or because it's not yet implemented there)
>
> Not sure I understand your explanation (totally my fault, of course).
>
> I think your implementation of \setupinteraction[focus=standard] as:
>
>      ["<<  /D [ %i 0 R /XYZ %0.3F %0.3F null ]>>"]
>
> is really great. Because you don’t chenge zooming or page view at all.
> This is extremely wise (as ConTeXt itself). It is only a pity that it
> doesn’t work for footnotes, endnotes and index entries.
>
>> the hyperlink mechanism currently has the options page,name,auto (auto
>> being default) so you can try name but still not get what you want; the
>> page variant is needed for documents with 100K or more hyperlinks (and
>> in fact the ability to choose between name/page is also there because in
>> principle we can have backends that only support page linking ... i
>> forgot the details but when pdf came out and acrobat / dvipsone was
>> supported one had named only and the other page only destinations; if i
>> kick out that kind of flexibility we're locked into pdf completely)
>
> These options are totally new (and previously unknown to me). I’m afraid
> I wasn’t able to find them in the ConTeXt command list
> (http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf).

The command reference contains only a fraction of all available 
commands, there will be
a extended version but this will take a while.

> Grepping in the source, I see \showsetup{interaction} in scrn-ini.mkiv.
> I don’t know how to get the options from showsetup (I get a MISSING
> SETUP message [probably I’m missing to load a module]). I don’t know how
> to get the name (which command and which option?).
It should be \showsetup{setupinteraction} but I attached a file with a 
relevant commands in this file.

Wolfgang

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