Dear God. When the writer of the BNF paper index is lacking in common
sense and shows a similar contempt for users to that displayed by
companies who use call centres to deal with help line enquiries, as in
looking up certain drugs in the BNF index only to be told see section x
or entry y when it would actually be easier to just put in the bloody
page number, WELL! Not much chance of hypertextual cross-references or
any kind of cross-references. And the longer I live, as in months, the
more I long for such. And I long for the Midgley-proposed mechanism for
being able to drill down into articles and explore the evidence backing
up each assertion, figure, treatment etc etc.
Declan
<<I'm surprised there are not cross references in the two hypertexts - the
BNF and the BNF(Children)
[examines internal state more closely]
Let me rephrase that...
It would be sensible to construct the two hypertexts with
cross-references to each other, and increase the usefulness of each to
those using them.
I ought to be surprised, I think, because by now we have known this sort
of stuff for a long time.>>
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