Re: [Texi2html-bug] Setting $element->{id} if manual is not split (i.e. element_file_name is not called)?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:02:11AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 
> For us the issue is not so much to absolutely guarantee uniqueness, but 
> rather 
> to provide anchor names, which don't change over time. In particular, we 
> often answer user requests by simply posting a link to the documentation. Of 
> course, those links should always work. SECxx is bad in that regard, because 
> whenever a subsection is added somewhere, everything after that will change 
> anchors and the posted links will point to the wrong section (the docs on the 
> homepage are updated quite frequently to the latest version...). 
> That's why I base the anchor names on the node names (which need to be unique 
> in the document, anyway). And for those sections without a node attached: 
> Well, that's our problem then to guarantee that the section names are unique 
> (at least unique within each section due to our file splitting).

I have implemented human readable anchors for sections. However to
disambiguate these from nodes, they may have a number starting at 1 
appended, like 
section-1
In fact, each time the node and the section have the same name, theere
will by such a character appended.

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Pat