Where to find Book/editions introductory essays?

[Pasanna]

Could someone point me to where I can find an online version of the essays at the beginning of Bhante @sujato’s translations. I am particularly looking for the one in the front of the snp. The tag ebt-translation has over 200 posts in it, which is as bit daunting and search doesn’t help.

I also noted that this essay titled ‘preface to the suttanipāta” starts with the sentence

in case you can’t tell from the introduction, I love the suttanipāta.

Yet if I scroll back to the beginning of the pdf, there is no ‘introduction’. I feel like i am missing something or there is some context missing which doesn’t allow this book to stand alone.

[trusolo]

So a book or pdf version of this?
https://suttacentral.net/edition/snp/en/sujato/introduction?lang=en

[Pasanna]

That is what I was after! Thanks.

I went the other way around and wound up here and got the pdf. It starts with preface before general remarks.

It’d be great to have these two pages combined

[Snowbird]

They are, through this unobtrusive horizontal table of contents (orange box is my addition):

Or do you mean something different? Personally I find that menu/toc a bit too unobtrusive. Especially on mobile, but even on desktop.

[Pasanna]

@Snowbird

Or do you mean something different? Personally I find that menu/toc a bit too unobtrusive. Especially on mobile, but even on desktop.

yes it is a bit too unobtrusive. Thanks Trush and Venerable

[Snowbird]

@Pasanna

a bit too unobtrusive.

I personally agree, however it does fit with the general UI of the site.

I’d love it if we could work out some css to create fade ins/fade outs. Perhaps something like this:

I also noticed that there is no indicator in that menu/toc as to exactly what page you are on. I wonder if it shouldn’t be something like:

The background around “Introduction” is what is normally the hover indicator.

[Snowbird]

Ah, it looks like there is in fact a opacity change:

To me it’s nearly indistinguishable. Can you tell in the image above? I’m sure if there were an accessibility test for that it wouldn’t pass.

[Pasanna]

It’s a bolder text weight.
On my iPad the hover background is also (always) there

[Snowbird]

@Pasanna

It’s a bolder text weight.

According to the css, the current item is opacity:1 and the others are .8. I’m guessing that creates the illusion of weight.

Interesting that on a mobile device the hover style is on.

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

@Snowbird

nearly indistinguishable

My first thought was something like this:

[Pasanna]

Looks good.

I think the real problem is that the majority of the navigation isn’t on the top of the page.
(unless we are using the plugin)

The user is navigating the page through the main area of the site using the cards. It is not instinctive to then jump to the top of the page. So then the navigation at the top is ignored unless one wants to go ‘back’ using the breadcrumbs.