Follow up

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  by MDarkKing
  on 2022-03-22 18:02

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  by WolfofWinter
  on 2022-03-19 13:06

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  by A Roaring Dryad
  on 2022-03-18 02:14

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  by HyperionCaesar
  on 2022-03-18 01:49

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  by Scyoni
  on 2022-03-15 22:26

  Honestly a list of links similar to the ones we use in editing would be nice - just a "related topics" sidebar/footer box with a list of pages. I wouldn't want to display ALL related content links since the ones I keep for reference occasionally relate to spoilers, but it seems like an 'addon' that doesn't impact the exportability / format of the actual story if they're an aside.   Having them inline seems to me like it would be distracting and more complicated than its typically worth... Even footnotes lend themselves to feeling more like an encyclopaedia than a story. Small downvote because I think this should be taken in a 'related content' direction instead of adding layers to the writing itself.

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  by moonflower-writing
  on 2022-03-13 16:50

  This seems like a nice addition for explaining new concepts without breaking immersion

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  by Michael Chandra
  on 2022-03-13 15:32

  I like the more-immersive footnotes idea, which is also friendlier for a print format.

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  by JamesWoodwright
  on 2022-03-13 15:06

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  by Uruschk
  on 2022-03-11 16:27

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  by Arevlan
  on 2022-03-11 15:29

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  by Lenosallose
  on 2022-03-11 10:18

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  by Drake Ragon
  on 2022-03-10 08:11

  I pondered about that for a while too. I am still sure, that it would be a great addition for those who want to know more on the spot. Which is awesome for those readers, invested in your world.   Others might get tempted and therefore get pulled out of the story or simply overwhelmed. A "show/hide links" button could fix that and on top of that I am quite sure that the export to any format could simply ignore links and show them as normal text.   Footnotes could work, but this might also be a good idea for variables (which are not usable yet, I believe) this way one could explain a thing as short as possible and avoid the things mentioned above. Yet again that's technically a "in place" footnote :D

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  by A Mischievous Kobold
  on 2022-03-09 23:44

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  by Cammykins
  on 2022-03-09 21:21

  If instead of a tool tip or pop-up it was a footnote. Footnotes are often used in fiction as well as non-fiction. that way the reader could decide if they wanted to use it and it would stay in the book and be exportable and/or printable. I have seen this in EPUB books already. Terry Pratchet uses it all the time

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  by TheWaterLilyTora
  on 2022-03-09 12:37

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  by iantojohn
  on 2022-03-08 02:14

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  by Exaldear
  on 2022-03-08 00:30

  If it's an optional measure to be turned on and won't affect the eventual export of manuscripts then this idea could help those who want it.

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  by Dirkster
  on 2022-03-07 16:06

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  by DMFW
  on 2022-03-07 14:59

  So, I'm going to downvote this, because it goes against the spirit of open publishing which I think manuscripts are intended for. I'm not trying to be mean as I understand the impulse behind the idea but at some point I believe the generation of epubs from manuscripts is going to be a thing and then where do the tool tips go? Rich formatting options like this seem to belong more to content intended to be always presented on the main site, which isn't necessarily the idea with Manuscripts. I'd be worried that if Manuscript options went too far away from things that can be presented in open formats, we'll get something that isn't exportable. That said, there are some things you can't do in manuscripts that should be exportable so I'd like to see those included but that's a different topic.

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  by TheDoctor292
  on 2022-03-06 18:01

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  by LiaFelis
  on 2022-03-06 08:28

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  by SrSpaceCadet
  on 2022-03-06 03:36

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  by NovaTerra
  on 2022-03-05 22:55

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  by Tijmuhn
  on 2022-03-05 08:55

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  by A Fluffy T-Rex
  on 2022-03-04 15:16

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  by LeighThalion
  on 2022-03-04 15:14

  Oooh. Yes. This would be really nice. It'd be like having auto-footnotes or an index that you didn't have to leave your spot to go look up the thing. I don't know how many stories I've read where they explain the weird thing once and then don't bring it up again until thirty chapters later and I have to go back and hunt up the original passage. Being able to hover instead of go hunting would be sweet.

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  by A Adorable Skeleton
  on 2022-03-04 13:23

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  by eccbooks
  on 2022-03-04 11:46

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  by AuraGuard
  on 2022-03-04 11:14

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  by VariableX
  on 2022-03-04 06:44