BETTER

render_books.py

@@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ def render_book(book, translation, out_dir):
     else:
         out.append(esc(name))
     out.append("</h1>\n")
-    out.append('    <nav class="chapter-nav" aria-label="Chapters" '
-               'hx-boost="false">\n      <ul>\n')
-    for chapter in book["chapters"]:
-        out.append('        <li><a href="#ch%d">%d</a></li>\n'
-                   % (chapter["number"], chapter["number"]))
-    out.append("      </ul>\n    </nav>\n")
-    out.append('    <p class="home"><a href="./">All books</a></p>\n')
+    # The title and nothing else. Both of the things that used to sit under it
+    # are in the navbar now, where they are in reach from anywhere in the book
+    # rather than only from the top of it: the chapter list became the
+    # reference picker, which reads its chapters and verses straight off this
+    # markup, and "All books" is what the navbar brand already does. In Psalms
+    # the chapter list alone was a hundred and fifty links, carried in the
+    # fragment and in every device's offline copy.
     out.append("  </header>\n")
 
     out.append('  <div class="chapters">\n')