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bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:39:20 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <5809@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:17:35 -0700
>
> Keep in mind too that in some documentation systems, which don't even have the
> fine-grained "node" size of Info (on average), cross references generally do
> not
> take you to an exact destination position. They just get you to the
> appropriate
> section.
That Info does support this feature is one of its advantages, and we
should not lose it, IMO. Without it, reading a large manual as a
reference is a PITA.
Besides, it simply feels as a bug (and actually is): you are placed in
the middle of a sentence that, more often than not, has nothing to do
with the subject you are after.
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Juri Linkov, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Juri Linkov, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Stefan Monnier, 2010/04/01
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/02
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/02
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/02
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/04
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/04
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/04
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Juri Linkov, 2010/04/04
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/05
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Juri Linkov, 2010/04/05
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Stefan Monnier, 2010/04/05
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/05
- bug#5809: 23.1.94; cross-reference by anchor yields in accurate position, Drew Adams, 2010/04/06