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Re: Alternative extension?

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lavalamp213 wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:04 pm So it works with the Page extension?
I wouldn't have suggested it if it didn't work with Pages. ;-)
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Re: Alternative extension?

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warmweer wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:12 pm
lavalamp213 wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:04 pm So it works with the Page extension?
I wouldn't have suggested it if it didn't work with Pages. ;-)
When am I gonna learn to listen to you?

I'm working with it now and it has a lot going for it for sure.

- I can disable some of the more silly features like glow and marquee.

- It's actually a ton easier to add images, I don't even need to make a table. This was one of the wonkier things about TinyMCE.

Also, with TinyMCE the images were cut off on phones. For example, I would place 9 images in a 3x3 table, but only one column, 3 images would show on a phone.
I think this one will work better in that regard too.

One thing I am looking for though is a page break. Creating a separate page for every entry I need to do will get pretty unwieldy because there are hundreds. Currently I have the entries alphabetical, so all the As on one page, Bs on another etc. with page breaks between each entry, each page a separate link.

I may find a way to do that.
I will in any case have to rebuild the whole thing but to be honest, if it works this much better better, it will be easier in the long run. Looks better too really.

Thanks so much and thanks for being so persistent with me. Sorry for making you work so hard!
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lavalamp213 wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:58 pm One thing I am looking for though is a page break. Creating a separate page for every entry I need to do will get pretty unwieldy because there are hundreds. Currently I have the entries alphabetical, so all the As on one page, Bs on another etc. with page breaks between each entry, each page a separate link.
Page breaks could probably work (although I've never tried it) but In order to link to a different page number you'll probably need to use anchors (I may be wrong about this as I've no experience with page breaks).
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Re: Alternative extension?

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warmweer wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:50 pm Page breaks could probably work (although I've never tried it) but In order to link to a different page number you'll probably need to use anchors (I may be wrong about this as I've no experience with page breaks).
I've been trying to work this out and have had no luck.
I posted on the Pages support forum as well as the ABBCodes support page days ago and no response on either one. Except one person did suggest I create an html page but I don't think that would scale for me, and I don't know how to do it anyway.

I found the bbcode for Anchor, but I so far haven't been able to work it out.

I need to set the anchor and then be able to go to it from another page. I tried many things but got nowhere.

If anybody knows how this is done, or can even just tell me that it can be done, it would be so great.
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Re: Alternative extension?

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I can set anchors that I can access within a page.

What I would like to do is access anchors from another page.

So for example:

I have a page called "Topic A" with the url:

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 www.pageofinterest.com
on that page I have an anchor set like so:

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[anchor]Section 5 [/anchor]
From another page, I can reach the page called Topic A using:

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[url=www.pageofinterest.com]Topic A[/url]
But I want to get directly to that anchor called Section 5.

Is there a possibilty to do that?
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Re: Alternative extension?

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You should be able to access it like this

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[url=www.pageofinterest.com#Section 5]Topic A[/url]
although I am not sure the the space in "Section 5" is valid
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Re: Alternative extension?

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david63 wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:54 pm You should be able to access it like this

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[url=www.pageofinterest.com#Section 5]Topic A[/url]
although I am not sure the the space in "Section 5" is valid
This works if I eliminate the space in "Section 5"

Thank you so much. this works perfectly.
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