Re: styling flexibility for definitions

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:46:23PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> The html output for definitions only allows for very limited css styling.
> 
> As an example of the kind of styling it would be nice to enable, in my Kawa 
> and
> DomTerm manuals I move the "category" to the right margin,
> as you can see examples of here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Composable-pictures.html

Feel free not to consider it if you find implementing your desired
functionality enough, but there has also been discussion of outputting
an "anchor" at def items to provide a link that could be copied:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2020-09/msg00022.html

It would be good if this could be implemented with CSS too.

The CSS implementation of this on Sphinx-generated pages is
in a large, incomprehensible CSS file so I can't tell how it works.
It is something to do with the CSS hover property.

Although when you look at the source code of

https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro/getting-started-with-sphinx.html

the permalink label is ¶ (pilcrow sign), it is displayed as some
chain symbol which you can't select with the mouse.

I read an explanation online of how it worked a few days ago; unfortunately
I cannot find it again now.

I also found this old discussion:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2019-02/msg00005.html