> On Dec 26, 2021, at 7:10, Per Bothner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (This is related to the "control over sectioning and splitting: thread,
> as it may make it easier to provide a clean solution.)
>
> Currently, a header element generates an empty <span id="...> element.
>
> For example:
>
> @subheading Electron
>
> generates (assuming no conflicting "Electron" anchor or node):
>
> <span id="Electron"></span><h4 class="subheading">Electron</h4>
>
> while:
>
> @anchor{Electron}
> @subheading Electron
>
> generates:
>
> <span id="Electron"></span><span id="Electron-1"></span><h4
> class="subheading">Electron</h4>
>
> Two requests:
> (1) Don't generates the implicit id="Electron-1" when it immediately follows
> an explicit id="Electron".
> (2) Add the id attribute to the <h4> element rather than generate an empty
> <span> node.
>
> Thus I'd like to see, for both inputs above:
>
> <h4 id="Electron" class="subheading">Electron</h4>
>
> I think this is both cleaner and it would make for easier post-processing,
> such as by JavaScript or XSLT.
Or CSS. Since now we can have a target on the "Electron" id that affects the
whole H4 and not an empty span that's probably only used for navigation
purposes.
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