Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka 4.0 Blog

From most books in CST4 you can click a button in the book toolbar to jump to the corresponding commentarial book, or from commentaries back to the root text. There has been a request to document this feature. The following documentation is intended to assist future implementers of the book linking feature.

There are at least 4 different types of Tipitaka files: 1) whole books, 2) files containing multiple books, 3) books split over two or more files, 4) books that do not have continuous paragraph numbering.

1) Simplest case: mūla, aṭṭhakathā and ṭīkā are each one, whole book. Each book has continuous paragraph numbering, i.e. there is only one paragraph 1 per book. When the button is clicked, determine current paragraph, open corresponding book and jump to the same paragraph.

Files that fall into this case include Dīgha, Majjhima, Saṃyutta Nikāyas, Aṅguttara Nikāya 1 and some books of Khuddaka.

(more later…)