From spc@conman.org Wed Dec 24 14:40:00 2008
From: spc@conman.org
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL keyboards	(Keytronics))
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:40:00 -0500
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It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated:
> > >> of pointers is valuable.)
> > > A good professional indexer works with synonyms and subject, not just
> > > keywords.  A keyword only index is basically a concordance.
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, der Mouse wrote:
> > Good point; thanks for catching that - I suspect I've seen too many
> > concordance-style indices and too few of the other sort.  But even a
> > good index can be done perfectly well in plain text; the only part
> > that's at all difficult is what to use as the pointer to the referenced
> > text, and that (a) is an issue only if the text is not broken into
> > numbered pages and (b) is not hard to solve even if the text is not
> > paginated (it could use line numbers, section numbers, even search
> > patterns, etc).
> 
> I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning
> of a document.

  Are you taking about an artibrary HTML document that you may not have
control over?  Or just for HTML documents you control?  If the latter, then
there are two methods---one works for all browsers, and the other for more
modern ones.  

  The first method is to use the <A> tag as:

	<P><A NAME="target">Blah</A> blah blah ... </P>

  It's then referenced with <A HREF="#target">yada yada</A> (and you can add
the '#target' to the end of the URL).  It's been a part of HTML for as long
as I can remember.

  The second method works for any tag; it uses the ID attribute.

	<P ID="target">Blah blah blah ... </P>

 It's referenced the same as as the first method.  I myself use this second
method almost exclusively now.  

  -spc

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