Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Steven Pousty <steve(dot)pousty(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page
Date: 2020-12-17 15:01:50
Message-ID: 20201217150150.GB23260@momjian.us
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:
>
> > They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
> > email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic
> > is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help
> > someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
> > them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole
> > page and telling them to search for it.
>
> Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
> chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
> Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
> it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
> it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.

I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig
through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
URL would be helpful.

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