I think it would be great if the links that were saved in PM tarballs looked like this:
\PMlinkname{Parseval's theorem}{PersevalEquality} instead of like this:
\htmladdnormallink{observations}{http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/DataTypesInStatistics.html}Presumably the only definition you'd need in the "global header" would be something like this (maybe it is already there; I got my copy from a note sent to me by rspuzio):
\def\PMlinkname#1#2{\special{html:<a
href="http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/#2.html"}#1\special{html:</a>}}Changing the format to look like this would make things easier for the FEM. If this isn't desireable for PM, then the links can just be rewritten for the FEM. I do think that it would be nice if a standard link format could be used, though, because it would make for less confusion when creating diffs between FEM and PM sources. My vote is for standardizing on the simpler form quoted above, because it makes the source easier to read and it makes redefinition of the behavior straightforward.
Does this request even apply anymore considering that we are now hooking PM up to the FEM through CVS? --akrowne Sat Apr 23 23:24:52 UTC 2005
It continues to apply. If you change the format of links, then that's one less piece of code I'll have to run! In addition, the non-FEM application (since I know you want to know it) is that it makes the raw code much more readable to non-FEM folks. My new suggestion is:
\pmxref{Parseval's theorem}{PersevalEquality} (since that's the name we use in the FEM). The 'pmxref' command should probably go into the shared/required headers we've been talking about. --jcorneli Sat Apr 30 23:23:57 2005 UTC