On 2020-Jun-21, Tom Lane wrote: > That has not been our practice up to now, eg in comparable cases in > discussions of GUC variables, only the first reference is xref-ified. > I think it could be kind of annoying to make every reference a link, > both for regular readers (the link decoration is too bold in most > browsers) and for users of screen-reader software.
In the glossary I also changed things so that only the first reference of a term in another term's definition is linked; my experience reading the originals as submitted (which did link them all at some point) is that the extra links are very distracting, bad for readability. So +1 for not adding links to every single mention. > There is a fair question as to how far apart two references should > be before we <xref> both of them. But I think that distance > does need to be more than zero, and probably more than one para. Nod. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
