Re: Alternative input formats

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But HTML itself lacks the notion of indexes or cross-manual references,
  > for instance (cross-manual references must work both with on-line copies
  > and with locally installed manuals.)

It is true that these concepts as such do not appear in the specs
of HTML.  But there are ways to deal with that.
For instance, we could define a particular structure of HTML code
to represent the index of a manual.

As for cross-manual references, can't we represent them
as links?

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