An idea for within document anchor references

[Fletcher T. Penney]

On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:


>

> The question is: Do we really need to add the special link-to- 

> header syntax -- which doesn't work when two headers have the same  

> text -- when all we need is the ability to set ids to headers?


I would argue yes.  Most of the time, (in my documents, anyway)  
headers will have different text.  I don't want to have to manually  
assign an id to each header, on the chance I might want to refer to  
it later.  It's much easier to simply automate the process.   Most of  
the time, my id would be the same as the concatenated header text  
anyways.  Why shouldn't markdown do it for me?

As for the unique ID - this is not an issue specific to headers -  
it's an issue with many newly discussed features when combining  
multiple documents into one page (as happens on a weblog).  I would  
prefer that we treat the two issues separately so as not to confuse  
them.   The same solution to unique id's for headers can be applied  
to footnotes, etc.  (And that is also an issue that needs to be  
solved, though not one I am likely to run into personally.)


Just my $0.02,

Fletcher

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Fletcher T. Penney
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