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Re: bad relative urls in texinfo-4.0f


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: bad relative urls in texinfo-4.0f
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:56:12 +0200

> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:06:54 -0800
> From: Per Bothner <address@hidden>
> 
> If you have two unrelated nodes ending up on the same web-page because
> they accidentally have similar names, then that is a more fundamental
> problem and anchors isn't going to solve the brokenness.

The anchors do solve this, believe me.  The only problem with more
than one node on a file is to navigate to the right spot when you
click on a link.  Anchors cause the browser to get to the right place
in this case.

> You *will* have navigation problems if there are clashes, even with
> anchors, because having unrelated nodes on the same web page because
> they have similar names is just confusing and wrong, period.

I don't see what problems you envision.  There are gobs of documents
out there with multiple nodes per file, each one referenced by its
anchor, and I never had any problems navigating with any of them.
Makeinfo 4.0 was producing a single HTML file with all the nodes on
it, and I'm not aware of any problems with that, either.

> > she could use that option to get rid of the #anchors in the URLs.
> > 
> > Would that be good enough?
> 
> It would be acceptable to me, but I happen to think it should be the
> default.

And I think that having the #anchor in the URL bar is not something
you should bother about.  Can we meet halfway?

> In fact, I think rather than a switch to turn anchors on
> or off, you should have a switch that generates files names using the
> same mangling that you currently use for anchors.

Sorry, I don't understand this suggestion.  Could you please
elaborate?



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