Index naming issues, very minor

[MikeTO]

Some very minor naming issues with the Index panel:

The Index panel has a control named Insert Marker which should be Insert Mark to match the neighbouring control Show/Hide Index Marks and the menu commands Insert Index Mark and Show Index Marks.

The Index panel has a context menu command named Add Cross Reference but it opens a window named Add Cross-Reference spelled with a hyphen. It's more correct with the hyphen and that's what the new Cross-Reference feature uses.

The Index panel has a context menu command named Add sub topic but it would be more correctly written as Add subtopic, it doesn't take a space hyphen.

The Index panel's context menu has inconsistent capitalization, they should probably all be sentence case.

[MikeTO]

Also some very minor things in the related help file: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Advanced/index.html?title=Index

I believe this page uses the terms index mark title and index entry title to mean the same thing. I think it would be better to replace these with index topic which is the official term. For example:

To add a sub topic:
From the Index panel:
1. ^(ctrl)-click on an index mark title and select Add sub topic.

To rename an index entry:
From the Index panel:
1. Click on an index entry title, and click again to edit its name.

The Add cross-reference dialog should probably be renamed to Add index cross-reference given there is a new Insert Cross-Reference dialog that does something very different.

Also, the Add cross-reference and Add Index Topic dialogs have white backgrounds in light mode instead of the standard grey. It's an unusual shade of grey in dark mode but the difference is less noticeable there.

 

 

[NathanC]

Hi @MikeTO,

On 8/27/2023 at 7:53 PM, MikeTO said:

The Index panel has a control named Insert Marker which should be Insert Mark to match the neighbouring control Show/Hide Index Marks and the menu commands Insert Index Mark and Show Index Marks.

The Index panel has a context menu command named Add Cross Reference but it opens a window named Add Cross-Reference spelled with a hyphen. It's more correct with the hyphen and that's what the new Cross-Reference feature uses.

The Index panel has a context menu command named Add sub topic but it would be more correctly written as Add subtopic, it doesn't take a space hyphen.

The Index panel's context menu has inconsistent capitalization, they should probably all be sentence case.

I've now logged these with the developers.

On 8/28/2023 at 4:29 AM, MikeTO said:

The Add cross-reference dialog should probably be renamed to Add index cross-reference given there is a new Insert Cross-Reference dialog that does something very different.

Also, the Add cross-reference and Add Index Topic dialogs have white backgrounds in light mode instead of the standard grey. It's an unusual shade of grey in dark mode but the difference is less noticeable there.

I've also mentioned these points on the same report, the dedicated cross-references panel isn't in the release builds yet, but i've made a note of this anyway since it would be beneficial to better distinguish them.

On 8/28/2023 at 4:29 AM, MikeTO said:

Also some very minor things in the related help file: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Advanced/index.html?title=Index

I believe this page uses the terms index mark title and index entry title to mean the same thing. I think it would be better to replace these with index topic which is the official term. For example:

To add a sub topic:
From the Index panel:
1. ^(ctrl)-click on an index mark title and select Add sub topic.

To rename an index entry:
From the Index panel:
1. Click on an index entry title, and click again to edit its name.

I've logged this with the docs team.