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Re: HTML self links to anchor points
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: HTML self links to anchor points |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:57:00 +0000 |
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 07:53:08AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> I tried this out using the maxima manual. This looks nice and works very
> well! Not sure I like the fact that I can only see the link when I hover
> over the item. I didn't check on a mobile device, but if this is how it
> works on mobile, that's not so good. Presumably, I can change this
> behavior with a bit of CSS.
Yes, it is possible to make the links always visible by changing the CSS.
> > I think links for @anchor is important since it's something the author had
> > to say explicitly, so having that available in html seems appropriate.
> > Perhaps I'll change my mind after I see what you've done so far.
> >
> Having seen these new links, I'm not sure what to do about anchors. In
> maxima's manual, the anchors often point to the first entry of a deffoo.
> So now there would be two links to the same place, with different ids. In
> this case, it's not terrible. But if there's an @ref to some @anchor, to
> get the link you'd have to find any @ref pointing the anchor to get the
> link. That's not so convenient.
For @def* and @*table there is a clear "heading" which the link can
be attached to. In contrast, @anchors (like index entries) could be
anywhere. I don't think it would always look good to have a copiable
anchor link (what do you call these things? - "permalink" seems to be
promising too much) and there may not be a good place to put them.
As with index entries, I feel that @anchors should be invisible at
the target (although it would be interesting to see any examples from
documents where having a copiable link for an @anchor would work well).
Texinfo's own manual mainly uses @anchor for renamed nodes so that
old links still work. Copiable links here would not be useful.
Re: styling flexibility for definitions, Gavin Smith, 2020/11/01
Re: HTML self links to anchor points, Raymond Toy, 2020/11/02
Re: HTML self links to anchor points, Raymond Toy, 2020/11/03
Re: HTML self links to anchor points,
Gavin Smith <=
Re: HTML self links to anchor points, Raymond Toy, 2020/11/03
Re: styling flexibility for definitions, Gavin Smith, 2020/11/01