The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page

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 <[hidden email]> 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.

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.