The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 08:21:27PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/plpgsql-statements.html
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Hey Kind Doc People
I was hoping we could add sub-anchors for each of the sections on this page.
It would make it easier to link to the specific content of interest

Yes, I would like more sub-anchors too. Sometimes I add them when
creating the major release notes, but other than that, I don't know
anyone working on adding more.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com

The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee

Hello

On 2020-Dec-02, PG Doc comments form wrote:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/plpgsql-statements.html
Description:

Hey Kind Doc People
I was hoping we could add sub-anchors for each of the sections on this page.
It would make it easier to link to the specific content of interest

Exactly where would you want more anchors in this page? The
sections ("42.5.6. Doing Nothing At All") already have them.

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic
is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help
someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole
page and telling them to search for it.

I guess I could also just copy the link in the TOC at the top of the page
that points to the header I want.

So not a hig priority request but certainly easier if the anchor is right
there to copy when I am reading the section.

Thanks
Steve

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:31 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:42 PM Steven Pousty <steve.pousty@gmail.com>
wrote:

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic
is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help
someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole
page and telling them to search for it.

I guess I could also just copy the link in the TOC at the top of the page
that points to the header I want.

So not a hig priority request but certainly easier if the anchor is right
there to copy when I am reading the section.

Thanks
Steve

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:31 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

Hello

On 2020-Dec-02, PG Doc comments form wrote:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/plpgsql-statements.html
Description:

Hey Kind Doc People
I was hoping we could add sub-anchors for each of the sections on this

page.

It would make it easier to link to the specific content of interest

Exactly where would you want more anchors in this page? The
sections ("42.5.6. Doing Nothing At All") already have them.

Sorry I forgot to put the reply after the quote. Reply on top is the
default behavior in google and I just forget sometimes.

On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic
is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help
someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole
page and telling them to search for it.

Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, �lvaro Herrera wrote:

On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic
is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help
someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole
page and telling them to search for it.

Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.

I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig
through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
URL would be helpful.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com

The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:

On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second
email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual

topic

is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class,

help

someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want
them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the

whole

page and telling them to search for it.

Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.

I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig
through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
URL would be helpful.

+1

I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to
where to find answers to their questions.

David J.

On 12/17/20 10:11 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us
<mailto:bruce@momjian.us>> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:

On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:

They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the

second

email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that

actual topic

is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a

class, help

someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section

I want

them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to

the whole

page and telling them to search for it.

Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
Many sites do that.  I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.

I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
same page, so how would you know the link location?  I usually dig
through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
hardly scalable.  Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
URL would be helpful.

+1

I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to
where to find answers to their questions.

Something to help with this has been on my backlog for a bit. We may be
able to resolve this with the pgweb CSS layer.

Jonathan