Link Specific Text from One Document to Another?

To clear up one misconception: there is this narrative you’ve spun that we don’t listen, don’t care anymore, and that we think only our way is best. As I’ve noted several times before, but perhaps not often enough: the reason Scrivener does not have this feature is because its text engine does not support it.

That’s… it. Really. :slight_smile: If it could, we probably would.

Not that I would likely make much use of it, or if I did, it would be a convenience tool on top of a marker, for the main reasons I gave above. I have markers from files in software that no longer exist, made for operating systems that no longer exist—and they still work to this day, in every program I open or import them into. Most direct hyperlinks like this do not survive any kind of data movement between software. For that reason I have never once found their use compelling. The very small convenience you get (if any, as I went to in my analysis of hyperlinks—the “wall of text” you confused with me explaining the method for some reason, the method itself is a 600 word parcel basically describing what is mechanically similar to typing in italic text and using copy and paste) is not worth the longevity problem.

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