Starting with Issue 11 of Commodore Hacking, the new QuickFind indexing
system is utilized to aid readers of the text version in navigating the
magazine. At the top of each article or other important place in the
magazine, a word prefixed with a special string is present. (If viewing the text version,
See the title of this article for an example. Throughout the magazine, if an
article is mentioned, it will be followed by a reference string. For
example, if we mentioned this article, we would add (Reference: rch) after
the name. By using your favorite editor's search function and searching
for the string after the word "Reference:", prefixed by the magic prefix
string, will move you directly to the article of choice. To merely skip to
the next article in the magazine, search only for the magic prefix string.
Some handy indexing strings possibly not referenced anywhere are:
- top
- top of issue
- bottom
- bottom of issue
- contents
- table of contents
- legal
- legal notice
-
For those with access to a UNIX system, the command "what" can be
run on the issue, which will result in all the article titles being
printed.
A slightly different magic prefix string "#(A)" is used to delimit
sub-topics or main heading in articles. The text after the magic string
differs depending on article content. For the Input/Output column
(Reference: io), the text after the magic prefix will either be "c" for
comment, or "r" for response. In features and columns, a number after
the prefix indicates the ordinal of that heading or sub-topic in the
article. If a specific sub-topic is referenced elsewhere in the article,
a sub-topic reference will be indicated. A reference to "#(A)r" would
be written as "(SubRef: r)".
As time goes on, the role of this indexing system will be expanded and
changed to ease navigation of the text version, but minimize the clutter
added by these extra items.
Last Updated: 1995-12-4