User talk:Scenography

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 19:04, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Paragraph numbers as self-referencing links
If paragraph numbers or section numbers were links to themselves, then the reader could right-click (in most browsers) and choose "Copy link address." A link to a specific paragraph or section is useful when citing a reference work or law.

What is the easiest way to get a link to a specific paragraph or section? How has this problem been solved before?


 * It really depends upon the work and how that work is formatted. If a work is transcluded, as has page numbers, then you can link to page numbers. If a work is divided into sections across pages, you can then link to individual pages. You'll have to be more specific because there are many ways to link. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:42, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey has addressed some of this already, though I would like to step back a little, and his response of "it depends" relates to how we display the work on the web, rather than in the book. For example, biographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias are not displayed a page at a time, they are split to articles, eg., and each page has its own article, such that we can do something like Darwin, Charles Robert (DNB00). If we wanted to link to a specific part of a work that is not the page number, then we have some anchoring templates that can be inserted and something that we regularly do with book indices. I think that if you need a specific answer, then we would need a specific example. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:09, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and . An example is below. The sections are so short that I'd like to keep them on one page. At the same time, I like being able to right-click a section number and copy a link to a specific section (in the example, 11.1. or 11.2.). I'm looking for the easiest way to get a link to use in an email or other outside document. Is there a more elegant solution? -- Scenography (talk) 15:21, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

11.1.
Italic is sometimes used to differentiate or to give greater prominence to words, phrases, etc. However, an excessive amount of italic defeats this purpose and should be restricted.

11.2.
Italic is not used for mere emphasis, foreign words, or the titles of publications.

(Example from the GPO Style Manual, 2016)


 * For a different way of doing this, have a look at anchor and anchor+. An example where I'm currently using this technique is Index:Man in the Panther's Skin.djvu. I'm putting an anchor on every quatrain, which enables easy linking from the footnotes. An external link just needs to use The Man in the Panther's Skin/Chapter 1 to jump to that point. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:30, 29 August 2017 (UTC)