> From: David Vanderschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 16 Jul 2006 13:18:47 -0500 > > >So the inelegance is that you cannot click on the reference and get > >the right node of an Info manual presented to you? If so, then I > >guess it depends on your Web browser; if you use Emacs, for example, > >the problem doesn't exist. > > I am still perplexed by Eli's reaction to this. Even > if I were using emacs w3 as my browser, a link in the > Wiki could still not point to my copy - both because > my copy is not HTML and because the Wiki does not know > its location.
A properly formatted reference to an Info manual will cause Emacs to display it, even though it's not HTML. In other words, if Emacs can easily resolve a reference to an Info manual from within another Info manual, it can also resolve such a reference from an HTML page. > Let me say that I am imagining a scenario in which one > is browsing some presentation in the Wiki which might > say something like, "For information on how to ____, > check the [emacs manual].", where "[emacs manual]" > corresponds to a link to a specific relevant > subsection of the manual. If you click the link in > the Wiki, the specific subsection of the manual shows > up in your browser. That is the same scenario I was thinking about, except that if the reference is to an Info manual, Emacs shows the referenced part of it in the Info mode. > The location in the manual to > which such a link goes can be more precise than just a > node of the manual, as the HTML version of the manual > often provides multiple named anchor tags per node. Info supports anchors as well.
