[Pmwiki-users] Idea for visual anchors
Christian Ridderström
chr
Thu Feb 5 14:10:07 CST 2004
Hi
There's a pretty big FAQ at the LyX wiki site now, and sometimes when a
person asks a question I know is in the FAQ, I go there and search for it.
Then I want to e-mail the person a link pointing to this specific item.
Of course, in order for the link to be possible, an anchor is needed, e.g:
Q:[[#theQuestion]]To be or not to be?
The problem is that in order to create the link, I need to know the name
of the anchor, which I (as it is now) only can find out by looking at the
wiki source.
One possible solution is to use a table of contents, because then I could
go back to the TOC and do "Copy link adress" from the entry in the TOC
that points to the item. A drawback with this solution is that once you've
located the item you are looking for, you have to go looking for the
correct entry in the TOC.
Note: Some wikis improve this situation by converting the entire question
into a link that points back to the TOC.
However, the solution I'm thinking of is that anchors (possibly using a
slightly different markup) would cause a visible 'anchor'-icon appear that
is a link to itself basically. This way, you just right click on the icon
and do "copy link adress".
One possible markup for an anchor that's visible like this could be:
[[##anchor]]
and here's an example of what the HTML could be like:
http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/test.shtml
/Christian
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Christian Ridderstr?m http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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