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Re: 5-arg xref to Top w/o 3rd arg


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: 5-arg xref to Top w/o 3rd arg
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:26:32 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 04:49:53PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
>     url should be on the manual name.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>     you prefer the automatic removal of Top node to be in html too instead
>     of keeping two cases?
> 
> Yes, I think it would.  I think the result reads better, besides being
> simpler to explain.  The whole idea is to avoid saying in the visible
> text "See Section `Top' in <manual>", when what's being referred to is
> the whole manual.

But what if the user really wants to refer to the Top node?

> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html#Top
> or just
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html
> or even
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/
> 
> I imagine one way or the other will be better for you.  They all seem ok
> to me.

Ok.  Right now I think it is the second.

-- 
Pat



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