From mike@brickfieldspark.org Wed Dec 24 04:18:29 2008
From: mike@brickfieldspark.org
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: [personal] Re: PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL
	keyboards(Keytronics))
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:18:29 +0000
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> I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning
> of a document.

It is a variant of the <a href= tag
To another page it would be <a href="pagename.htm">, for a position in that 
page it would be <a href="pagename.htm#position">, where 'position' is a tag 
in that page <a name="position">.

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:52 AM
Subject: [personal] Re: PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL 
keyboards(Keytronics))


>> >> 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.
>
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred     cisin at xenosoft.com
>
>
> 

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