[
Date Prev][
Date Next][
Thread Prev][
Thread Next][
Date Index][
Thread Index]
[
List Home]
|
Re: [asciidoc-lang-dev] Proposing olinks
|
Yes! That matches my point of view very well!
David Jencks
> On Feb 18, 2021, at 12:08 PM, Dave Gauer <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/21 2:48 PM, Dave Gauer wrote:
>>> This is purely speculative, but I can imagine a 1-1 mapping when
>>> converting AsciiDoc files to web pages, but the same sources documents
>>> ending in one or two large PDF when transforming it for print. Or is
>>> this a total non-sense?
>>
>>
>> Yes, that makes complete sense!
>>
>> The 1:1 mapping problem has also bothered me because the output of a
>> book (EPUB, PDF) vs. website (directory of HTML) are likely totally
>> different things and in these scenarios, needing to link to "documents"
>> or "sections in documents" in that output is just...WRONG.
>
>
>
> Actually, I'm having a complete change of heart about the current state
> of the "xref" usage as it stands right now.
>
> If we think of
>
> xref:foo.adoc[Foo]
>
> or
>
> xref:foo.adoc#bar[Foo Bar]
>
> as "a cross-reference link to the content AUTHORED in the document
> foo.adoc", then it suddenly doesn't matter what the output filename(s)
> might be.
>
> There doesn't even need to be an actual file named "foo.adoc" (it could
> be an entry in a database table), but this is the canonical name of
> another document it in cross-references.
>
> Flipping it around to think of it as a cross-reference to the AsciiDoc
> source document rather than to an output file stands the entire problem
> on its head and suddenly I'm totally happy with it, file extension and all!
>
> Dan, is this how you think of xrefs?
>
> Sorry for all the mailing list traffic in the last ten minutes as I
> worked through this in my head and on the keyboard. :-)
>
> -Dave Gauer
> _______________________________________________
> asciidoc-lang-dev mailing list
> asciidoc-lang-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-lang-dev
