BUG? Please don't shrink the reference box

Todd Phillips
Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I'm not sure when this started but the reference box shrinks when the window gets smaller.  I often use small windows and I'd rather see a full reference than anything else on the tool bar.  This is very annoying to me.  It even shrinks before it runs out of empty toolbar space.  See the various sizes:

MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540

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  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,523

    Reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld... nevermind. [H]

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭

    I remember that episode. George was barking about interlinears in the ... oh wait.

    Agree on ref-box size being sized to available space. Esp since they don't abbrev the reference.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    Denise said:

    I remember that episode. George was barking about interlinears in the ... oh wait.

    [:O][:D]

    Denise said:

    Agree on ref-box size being sized to available space.

    Even when the space was gone, I'd rather lose the adjacent buttons than the reference box size.  I can always temporarily expand the window if I need to click a button, but the reference box is displaying info that I always want to see.

    MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭

    Totally OT, but I was reviewing my panels to see all the variation in 'squishing up' reference-box policies.  

    Interestingly 'Search' (huh?) in the Cited-By panel refuses to be squished or scrolled.

    In fact 'Search' will destroy the reference box before giving up even a single letter. Tough boy.

    I'd bet most people don't even know about instant reference searches.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.