Next parent slug

[ThePrinter]

@hbowie

‘Next Parent’ would not be quite right, because the next child at this level could in fact be a parent at a deeper level; so it might have to be something like ‘next peer’. But would most people understand this?

Texinfo refers to (non-root) top-level sections as “chapters”. In line with Notenik’s concept of Web books, I’m quite fond of this term myself. In our case, this is useful to solve the complexity of how to refer to the siblings of a child note’s parent^[1].

A merge variable like =$next-chapter$= could suffice. It may be advantageous to round out the suite of navigation variables and compliment =$next-slug$= by adding =$prev-chapter$= and =$prev-slug$= as well.

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1. Alternatively, we can take the Opal approach and refer to them as “aunts” (I’m half joking). ↩︎