On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:28:45PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > >>> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>> I wonder if these standalone things are really worthwhile. > > > >> I wonder how difficult it would be to make sufficient link data available > >> when > >> building the standalone files. There would be no linking per se; we would > >> just need the referent's text fragment emitted where the <xref> tag > >> appears. > > > > IIRC, that's basically what the "workaround" is, except it's not very > > automated. Even if it were automated, though, there's still a problem: > > such links aren't really *useful* in flat text format. I think that > > forcing the author to actually think about what to put there in the > > flat text version is a good thing, if we're going to retain the flat > > text version at all. > > Right. I mean, a lot of the links say things like "Section 26.2" > which obviously makes no sense in a standalone text file.
For <xref>s normally displayed that way, text output could emit a URL, either inline or in the form of a footnote. For link targets (e.g. SQL commands) having a friendly text fragment for <xref> sites, use the normal fragment. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
