In my experience, Prime documents that are this long tend to become so slow and unresponsive when editing that it is almost impossible to continue working on them—but this certainly also depends on the specific content of the sheets and the complexity of the calculations they contain. But that would probably be an important problem that would have to be solved first.
You may be interested to know that an automatically generated table of contents is being considered for Prime 13 or later.
It is not known whether this TOC will contain hyperlinks and could therefore also be also used for navigation.
If you are a paying customer with an active maintenance you may also consider to suggest an idea here or vote up an already existing idea. Not sure if it would help. though 😉
@mvenich wrote:
Frankly, Mathcad is being left behind by competitors. From the candidate feature list for Mathcad Prime 13, Maple Flow already has autosave, align regions and automatic toc (with hyperlinks). Units entry isn't as smooth, but they tell me they're working on Mathcad like entry of units
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Oh, Prime is not only left behind by its competitors but also by 20+ years old legacy Mathcad. We had no automatic TOC (we had the ability to create nice hyperlinked ebooks, though) but we sure had autosave and region alignment.
Admittedly, Prime has a few improvements that I really appreciate. For example, the easy entry of matrices, the Ctrl-J feature in programs, and the unit support in odesolve. The first two support a better workflow, which is essential.
And while I think that the symbolic engine is not on par with the old mupad in Mathcad 14/15 (and sure not on the level of Maple in MC11) it nonetheless surpasses muPad now and then and I have the impression that this is a part PTC is really working on and making continuous noticeable progress.
But then... scrolling in larger matrices, the completely botched implementation of copy & paste, the poor features of the 2D plots, the unfortunate integration of the third-party Chart component module, and then the quality of the 3D plots, which is definitely beneath the dignity of any hobby programmer.
Not to mention missing features such as the aforementioned autosave or region alignments.
In return, the next version will offer the option to change the background color—oh no, not freely from a palette, we will only have the choice between white and gray. Wow!
We will have to wait to see how the promised improvements on the native 2D plots are actually implemented. From the announcement it looks like we are at least approaching old Mathcad now in this respect with version 12 of Prime. I guess the formatting abilities of the 2D plots still will not live up to the ones we had back in the good old days, though. We had much better control over the look, more different line widths and could set the size of the line and the dot/symbol independent from each other.
