On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 05:59:56PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:53:11PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > If an author wants to have irregular menu or node structures for some > > reason (I haven't made sense exactly of what Christopher is doing > > with his documents) then they could use explicit node pointers, > > specifying Next/Prev/Up for each node. > > Another idea is to make it so that if a node has explicit node > pointers, then its menu would not be used to determine structural > relations between nodes. The menu, along with the node pointers, would > be trusted to be correct, and intended by the author, but not used > for anything else.
I was certain that it was already the case... > We'd need specifics of possible irregular document structures to know > how well this idea would work. As I said in another mail, to me the only constraint should be that any node is reachable from any point in the document through nodes or menus. Other than that, I do not think that we need to put constraints, although we could want to have warning messages for unusual structures. -- Pat
