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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeSep 5th 2014
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexThis issue came up here before, and it just came up in the HoTT mailing list again, too: the numbering of definitions/propositions/theorems on nLab pages is unfortunately invisible to the browser's search functionality. If you go to a page with a "Defintion 2" -- created via automatic numbering instead of with "2" entered by hand in the source code -- and then make your browser search for "Definition 2", then it won't find it. This here at least to remind us of this problem. Of course if anyone knows how this might be fixed, then all the better.

   This issue came up here before, and it just came up in the HoTT mailing list again, too:

   the numbering of definitions/propositions/theorems on nLab pages is unfortunately invisible to the browser’s search functionality.

   If you go to a page with a “Defintion 2” – created via automatic numbering instead of with “2” entered by hand in the source code – and then make your browser search for “Definition 2”, then it won’t find it.

   This here at least to remind us of this problem. Of course if anyone knows how this might be fixed, then all the better.

2. • CommentRowNumber2.
   • CommentAuthorZhen Lin
   • CommentTimeSep 5th 2014
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   Author: Zhen Lin
   Format: MarkdownItexI'm inclined to say this is a browser problem – even if all the major browsers have the same problem! It's not surprising if you know how things work under the hood: the number is generated by a CSS rule (specifically, a `:after` pseudo-element with a `content` attribute), which is essentially the same as how numbers for the items in an `<ol>` are generated. But no-one is surprised that searching for a number never matches the labels in a list.

   I’m inclined to say this is a browser problem – even if all the major browsers have the same problem! It’s not surprising if you know how things work under the hood: the number is generated by a CSS rule (specifically, a :after pseudo-element with a content attribute), which is essentially the same as how numbers for the items in an <ol> are generated. But no-one is surprised that searching for a number never matches the labels in a list.

3. • CommentRowNumber3.
   • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
   • CommentTimeSep 6th 2014
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   Author: Mike Shulman
   Format: MarkdownItexThey aren't? I would expect searching on a page to look through all the visible text on that page, regardless of how it was generated.

   They aren’t? I would expect searching on a page to look through all the visible text on that page, regardless of how it was generated.

4. • CommentRowNumber4.
   • CommentAuthoradeelkh
   • CommentTimeSep 6th 2014
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   Author: adeelkh
   Format: MarkdownItexThis should be fixed now, though you may have to clear your cache for it to take effect though. I just replaced the CSS with some JavaScript (this was kind of an abuse of CSS anyway).

   This should be fixed now, though you may have to clear your cache for it to take effect though. I just replaced the CSS with some JavaScript (this was kind of an abuse of CSS anyway).

5. • CommentRowNumber5.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeSep 6th 2014
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexThanks, Adeel, excellent!

   Thanks, Adeel, excellent!