HermanHiddema: (Request) Named section links (2009-01-05 14:23) [#5527]

Currently, if you want to link to a section within another page, you can do it with a #tocX link. For example, linking to DoubleKo#toc2 leads to the section about "Seki in double ko".

This can be useful, because that way, in another discussion you can say something like:

Now black makes Seki in double ko (note where that link goes).

If, however, someone adds a section to the double ko article above this one, the #toc2 link will break (it it now #toc3). If instead, such links would lead to named sections, that problem would not occur. So I would like to be able to link to something like DoubleKo#SekiInDoubleKo, where the section title has been turned into a valid page name (ie: stripping spaces and punctuation) and then used as the content of the <a name=""> element.

This new way is still vulnerable to breaking if someone changes the section title, but i think that is less likely to happen than the addition of new section (or a reorganization of the current ones). And also, if you link to a section, you can leave a note there on in a comment line (starting with %) which goes something like:

% This section is linked to directly, please do not change the section title