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1. With a story with a lot of episodes, it can take almost for ever to trace out the full back-story. That's because, when it reaches episode 2 it continues with the next thread that backlinks to there, and so on almost ad infinitum. The result is that I normally interrupt the process after a few seconds, which is normally enough to give as much back-story as I need.
2. However the Back-story Tree is of limited use, as it doesn't enable one to easily reread the story thread from the beginning. What would really be nice is sothing like "Display an Entire Chain of the Addventure" as found here: http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/game1/docs/1.html#stats
Although the BEAddventure is much larger than the NEQ, that seems to work well. (I don't think it tries to follow backlinks.) Of course, Extend-A-Story's architecture is very different, and I don't know how practical this would be.
If I understand what you are asking for, and based upon my playing around with the BE Addventure, you want a single page that contains the text of every episode leading up to a specified episode by following only the primary episode links and ignoring back links. Is that correct? If my understanding is correct, it is practical to implement this feature in Extend-A-Story.
My preference would be to make this a new page instead of modifying the back-story tree page. Would that work?
Yes, that was what I was suggesting. And yes, on a new page would be fine. It would make it much easier and less laborious to reread a thread, which I often want to do in order to ensure that I maintain continuity.