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From: Oliver Kleinke <oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
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> > For instance the paragraphs have no anchors, thus the possibility of
> > deep-linking is limited. The Index has neither anchors for the
> > letters nor links to them at the top. I can think of a lot more.
>=20
> In Randy's defense too, the anchor matter is more a browser matter
> than an Ada=E2=80=91RM source matter. Even in DocBook and others, you don=
't
> give everything an identifier or name. You give one for some context,
> and then access more specific components of that context with XPath
> and its expressions. Ex. if browser would support it, you could
> access the nth paragraph of a given chapter. Unfortunately, browsers
> don't. To give anchors to everything would be too much.
>=20

What browser matter? What has DocBook to do with that? I can put my
anchors where I like them to be. XPath in URIs is far from
practicability. You will be free to modify the XSLT-sheet to your
liking, if my anchor-placement does not suit you.

Oliver