h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Any chance of embedding the links to Soma Cube, Hex and Superellipses into the relevant sections of the entry? (as in the PR version of the entry)

I prefer the immediacy of seeing the link while I'm reading - as with footnotes, when I hover the cursor over the number rather than clicking to read them at the end.


Lettuce

Also - this is currently oddly self-referential. It isn't normally the case that an entry is linked to itself in the 'referenced entries'

Pimms (this is clearly a smiley holding a lettuce on a stick)

Links appear to be embedded and the self-referential link now points to an entry on Denmark! Thank you for pointing these out to us.

No, what I mean by embedding is having the links *in* the entry, not just *beside* it. Denmark and 1970s for instance have links *in* the entry, but Superellipse, Hex and Soma Cube do not.

I think a couple of the other conversations have been sparked by researchers not realising there is a linked entry that goes into greater detail.

Pimms

Pimms,

In the first paragraph, the three links to which you refer, are embedded *in* the entry. This is the GuideML:

"the superellipse, and as an engineer and inventor he created several games and puzzles, the most famous of which are Hex and the Soma Cube."

The links also appear beside the entry in the Referenced Entries section. When we embed a link, we do so on the occasion of the relevant word first appearing in the text. In the case of your entry, the three relevant words all first appeared in the first paragraph.

my gaze swept right past those links (repeatedly).

I wasn't anticipating the links that early in the entry - at that point the researcher won't be aware what the link is to.

It is somewhat like listing the footnotes at the beginning of an entry, so that when people get to the marker in the text they finally realise what the footnote was for.

You have a simple system for adding a link, but it failed my preconceptions of where a sensible place to put the link was, ie in the text that is describing it.

Pimms