Re: lynx-dev references on right side of links?

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> Hi, long time no lynx-dev.

Greetings to an old-timer. :)

> One of the nice features of Lynx is its ability to generate a
> nice-looking text dump with numbers next to each link and a list
> of references at the end. (using lynx -dump)
> 
> But I'd like the numbers to appear on the right hand side of the
> link text rather than the left, to be consistent with the style
> of footnotes/references in technical papers etc.
> 
> Would this be very hard to change? (maybe as a configurable option?)
> 
> I actually submitted a patch for this a few years ago, but I
> don't know if I did it correctly, and I'm sure the code base has
> evolved a lot since then:
> 
>     http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/lynx-dev/9510/0062.html

The basic approach from that patch should still work, although
HText_endAnchor has become much more complicated; it's not
immediately obvious where exactly the marker-adding should be put,
and how it would all interact with the code for not counting
empty (= 'hidden') anchors and for removing trailing spaces.

This should definitely not be the default.  For one thing it would
be more fragile wrt. broken HTML.  But I understand this is only
wanted for -dump; and in principle, it should work.

   Klaus