\pdfstartlink goto

Max Chernoff via pdftex <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:31:52 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.pdftex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Karl and Thanh,

(Via this TeX.SX question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/741113)

§4.11.2 of the pdfTeX manual says that "\pdfstartlink goto" should
accept a "page spec", but

    ⟨page spec⟩ → page ⟨number⟩ | named ⟨general text⟩

and "\pdfstartlink goto" doesn't work with "named". I added the "| named
⟨general text⟩", so I suspect that this is just a documentation bug that
I introduced (sorry), but maybe you actually intended to support "named"
here? Sample document:

    Target \pdfdest name {test} xyz\par
    \leavevmode\pdfstartlink goto page 1 {/XYZ null null null}
        Page link \pdfendlink\par
    % \leavevmode\pdfstartlink goto named {test} {/XYZ null null null}
    %     Name link 1 \pdfendlink\par
    \leavevmode\pdfstartlink goto name {test}
        Name link 2 \pdfendlink\par
    \bye

Also, I find §4.11.2 (the entire section, but especially the "goto"
paragraph) essentially impossible to understand. I'd offer to help
rewrite it, but since I don't really understand all the options to
\pdfstartlink, I can't really help much.

Thanks,
-- Max