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I was wondering whether anyone knows of a permalink to the current version of the pgf manual. I am cross referencing links from my package documentation to the tikz manual and would like to make sure that the links don't end up going to the wrong section of an updated version of the tikz manual, but also don't want to link an old version.

Hood Chatham
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  • What do you mean by not wanting to link an old version? If the manual is updated, a permalink will be to an old version, won't it? – cfr May 29 '17 at 19:39
  • http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf – percusse May 29 '17 at 19:42
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    @percusse Well, that's the same as for CarLaTeX. It doesn't link to a specific version, but to the manual in general. – TeXnician May 29 '17 at 19:46
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    I suppose it's almost a duplicate of mine https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/294476/is-there-a-tikz-and-pgfplot-html-manual-online ... unfortunately, seems that there are no "permalinks". Having something similar to the python documentation tree would be very nice indeed, but it's a lot of work. – Rmano May 29 '17 at 19:56
  • @cfr I mean I don't want to link to an older version than the current one. By googling, I've found what appear to be permalinks to versions prior to 3.0.1a. – Hood Chatham May 29 '17 at 19:56
  • Previous versions are not stored. So make sure your links mention the version of the manual. Otherwise it's a disservice to whomever you are directing – percusse May 29 '17 at 20:02
  • I guess I have the option of hosting a copy of the manual and linking to my copy. That might be the best bet. – Hood Chatham May 29 '17 at 20:03
  • Version 3.0.1 is archived on SourceForge. Unfortunately, the PDF is inside the ZIP file. https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/files/pgf/version%203.0.1/ – Henri Menke May 29 '17 at 21:52
  • This is a terrible idea. What if the people using your package have a newer version of PGF and things have changed? – cfr Dec 19 '17 at 05:08
  • @cfr That's a good point. I guess that my idea was that it's better to have references to the correct section of the manual in the old version and a note that the linked manual is slightly out of date than incorrect links to the new one -- at least then it's clear where I was trying to link. This would all be fixed if latex used the labels to make logical links like "file.pdf#dash-patterns" instead of "file.pdf#section.9". – Hood Chatham Dec 19 '17 at 13:55

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