On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:31 PM Per Bothner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/18/20 2:48 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Does anybody have a good idea how links to other Texinfo > > manuals could be marked in the HTML output? At present > > there is nothing to distinguish a link like > > > > <a > > href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html#Special-Forms";>Special > > Forms</a> > > > > from a link like > > > > <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/cm-super";>CM-Super</a> > > There are lots of ways. For example a new class name: > > <a class="external-texinfo-manual" href="...">...</a> > > If you want to list the name of manual (which might be useful > for a hover-over) you can use a new attribute: > > <a external-texinfo-manual="GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual" > href="...">...</a>
I think that the external manual name should be added as a data attribute: <a data-manual="elisp" href="..."> as there's no reliable way to extract this information from the URL. Possibly also even the package it's from, so <a data-manual="elisp" data-package="emacs" href="..."> so a browser can look under /usr/share/doc/emacs/elisp for the manual instead of just /usr/share/doc/elisp (although I don't know where the package information would come from).
