Re: 2 problems with pdf bookmarks

[Norbert Preining]

tags 37515 - fixed-upstream
retitle 37515 create destinations/bookmarks for sections without nodes
severity 37515 wishlist
thanks

Hi all!

I am retitling this bug as above, and make it a wishlist. See attached
explanation of Karl Berry:

On Fre, 03 Feb 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
> 
>     In the testfile we have the following bookmarks:
>     appendix A: first appendix
>     A.1     first section of appendix
>     A.1.1   subsection
>     A.2     second section of appendix
>     A.3     third section of appendix.
>     Unfortunately the jumping of bookmarks is simple, but wrong. It
>     ALWAYS jumps to the top of the (right) page. 
> 
> If the sections are given @node's, I think the jumps will go to the
> subpage positions, at least when I modified your test file that way it
> seemed ok.  I never bothered to do the extra programming to handle
> sections by themselves.  Per this comment in texinfo.tex:
> 
>     % Generate a link to the node text if that exists; else, use the
>     % page number.  We could generate a destination for the section
>     % text in the case where a section has no node, but it doesn't
>     % seem worth the trouble, since most documents are normally structured.
> 
> Thanks,
> k

Best wishes

Norbert

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