[tei-council] Permalinks, Pilcrows, and Punch.

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>> 5) A pilcrow is an internationally recognised character for such 
>> permalinks, if you don't believe me read the wikipedia page on the 
>> subject. 
> my reading of permalinks suggests that this functionality
> is not that of a permalink...

Ok, we are perhaps misusing the term.  Permalinks refer to a permanent link for 
a blog entry even when it has passed from the front-page or RSS/Atom feed, or 
whatever.  What these are intended to be are permanent bookmarkable links for 
each section and subsection of the guidelines to give a way for users to 
reference these in a clickable way when discussing them.

Another option instead of using pilcrows, would be to use so-called 'Purple 
Numbers'.  In our case, this would be to expose the @xml:id values for each 
section.  So a heading might read:

6.4.1 Sample Metrical Analyses (VEMEsamp)

with 'VEMEsamp' being a greyed-out link to that section.  The problem then being 
that maybe our id values are a bit ugly and we don't want to expose them.  That 
is why I thought just using a permalink character to be better.

-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk