discuss: Re: In HTML, "render" all headings as anchors
Subject:
Re: RFE: In HTML, "render" all headings as anchors
From:
Randy Kramer ####@####.####
Date:
20 Mar 2002 22:10:25 -0000
Message-Id: <3C990745.4CC7@fast.net>
David Merrill wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:56:38AM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > In "rendering" HOWTOs as HTML, could all HTML headings be rendered as
> > anchors?
> >
> > As an example, it might be useful to link to headings like "Fibbing to
> > Linux" or "Fibbing to Windows95" rather than, for example, the entire
> > chapter (http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO-4.html) or even
> > numbered chapter headings (like
> > http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO-4.html#bios_pnp_os).
>
> You can already do this by assigning the title an id of its own. Am I
> missing something or are you? :-)
Well, I'm not sure. ;-) I think what you are saying that is, as the
author of a HOWTO I can arrange to make any title (heading) an anchor by
assigning it an id.
What I'm looking for is the ability, as a HOWTO reader, not author, to
link to any heading. One way would be to have each author assign an id
to each heading, but I was hoping for a more generic approach, where the
SGML to HTML conversion tools automatically create the anchors.
regards,
Randy Kramer
