24 Dec
2008
24 Dec
'08
12:40 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated:
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
>> 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.