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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatic anchors for definition commands.
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:38:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AeaN7-00078R-Ms@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401080020.i080KMw16314@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org)

    However, I'm now somewhat convinced that adding implicit anchors for
    definition commands, as we add index entries now, would be reasonable.

This would mean a tremendous increase in the number of names defined
for cross-referencing.  That could cause a slowdown in TeX, or even
cause TeX to run out of memory.  I think we should not do this.

    I believe there are only three conclusions to be made at the present
    stage.  Either

    (A) conclude that definitions stand out clearly enough anyway and
	_only_ make anchors of type (3), which ofen refer to unnamed
	pieces of text that do not stand out very clearly from the
	surrounding text (but could not possibly be made into separate
	nodes).

    or make automatic anchors, either 

    (B) only for definitions 

    or 

    (C) for all index entries.  If I remember well, Juri at one point

I prefer (D): continue handling this the way we do it now.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07  2:50 automatic anchors for definition commands Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-07  6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-07 21:34 ` Karl Berry
2004-01-08  0:01   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-08  0:20     ` Karl Berry
2004-01-08  0:32       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-08 13:38       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-01-08 17:24         ` Karl Berry
2004-01-09 11:46           ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-10  5:23         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-11 19:37           ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-08 14:14     ` Eli Zaretskii

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