Re: styling flexibility for definitions

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:16:26PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 10/31/20 2:26 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > Feel free not to consider it if you find implementing your desired
> > functionality enough, but there has also been discussion of outputting
> > an "anchor" at def items to provide a link that could be copied:
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2020-09/msg00022.html
> > 
> > It would be good if this could be implemented with CSS too.
> 
> I'm dubious CSS can add a link, but it can easily be done with JavaScript.
> Or you can have makeinfo create the link.

You're right, there doesn't seem to any way to do it with CSS.  The
::after and ::before selectors only support adding plain text, no tags.

I am not sure if an anchor link should be output by default, or even
if there should be an option for it.  It could make the experience
worse when browsing the HTML in a text terminal, e.g. with lynx.  They
could get in the way of selecting another link with the keyboard.  Where
CSS is not available the anchor links would be visible all the time.

Perhaps anchor links could be generated by Javascript for those who
want to use them.  They could also postprocess the output of texi2any.