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Framework for Writing C++ Committee Papers
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Add hyperlink that goes directly to other WG21 papers #88

Closed jwakely closed 7 months ago

jwakely commented 2 years ago

I find it extremely tedious to click on a reference like [PnnnnR0] and get taken to the references section at the end of the paper, where I have to manually scan through the references to find the one I clicked on (because the browser doesn't put it at the first line because we're at the end of the doc), and then click again. I don't care about the nicely formatted references section that makes it look like a nice academic paper. I just want to go to PnnnnR0 and read the flipping paper!

Would it be possible to add a little "link" icon (e.g. U+1F517) after a reference, so that it appears as [PnnnnR0]🔗 and I can click the icon to go straight to the paper, not to the References section?

Personally, I'd just make the reference in square brackets go directly to the paper in the first place ... does anybody read the References? Maybe that info (title, author, date etc) could be presented as a mouseover popup using the title attribute of the <a> element to save jumping to the end of the paper. Most of the time I just want to read the actual paper, so I want to open it in a new browser tab ASAP. I don't want to go to the references at the end then jump back to where I was reading. That workflow dates from papers printed on actual paper, and is just tedious in hypertext.

mpark commented 7 months ago

This has now been fixed. The new behavior is such that citations to references with exactly 1 URL links straight to that URL.