[pmwiki-users] Automatically add anchors to heading tags?
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 18:27:36 CDT 2007
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>> Is there a simple way to configure pmWiki such that all headings (H1,
>>> H2, etc) are automatically generated with anchor tags so people can
>>> link directly to a section or subsection? (I believe MediaWiki has
>>> this functionality by default.)
>>
>> Now officially a requested feature. Vote / comment here:
>>
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00955
>
> I left some questions on the PITS page, but essentially:
>
> * What if the heading contains other markups, such as links
> or wikistyles? Do we have to be smart enough to strip those
> somehow before producing the heading anchor?
>
> * If a heading already has an anchor in it, should PmWiki
> still generate yet another anchor for the heading?
>
> * Do we convert all punctuation that appears in the heading,
> or just parens?
I tried finding the recipe 'visible anchors' that I thought I'd uploaded
to the cookbook a long time ago (pmwiki v1), but maybe it got incorporated
into John's PageToC.
I don't think it's a great idea to use the heading text to generate the
label. My recommendation is to enumerate them instead. If we worry that an
enumerated heading becomes incorrect if a heading is inserted before it,
remember that a similar thing happens if you change the heading text.
/Christian
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