Re: Hyperlinks!

[sirgazil]

 ---- On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:58:42 +0000 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote 
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 > Hello Guix!
 > 
 > Scheme code snippets in the on-line manual now have hyperlinks for all
 > the symbols documented in the manual:
 > 
 >   
 > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html
 >   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html
 > 
 > Hyperlinks are such an amazing invention!

That's great.


 > (If anyone knows how to get ‘a.syntax-symbol’ CSS different from just
 > ‘a’, I’m all ears!)

I think to style links you should be using the pseudo classes like ":link", 
":hover", ":visited", etc. So, for example:

a.syntax-symbol:link {
    color: black;
}

If I understand correctly, that should work.

 > This is happening in ‘doc/build.scm’ as a post-processing step on the
 > makeinfo-generated HTML (along with the syntax-highlighting
 > post-processing step).  It works well but there can be false positives
 > because it matches on identifiers, without taking scope etc. into
 > account—e.g., anytime “service” appears, it’ll link to the ‘service’
 > procedure.

I still don't understand why Texinfo doesn't provide syntax for allowing the 
HTML exporter to do that... Something like a @codeblock that accepts a language 
argument...