Maybe you would like to set up some sort of HTML Template mechanism, whereby you have a static, one-size-fits-all HTML wrapper that can be used to bracket any particular plain-text file; the text file would need just a couple very simple alterations, if the template went something like this: 
<HTML>
<BODY>
<PRE>
# text file goes here
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Now, the only things you have to worry about are:
  1. Convert any angle brackets within the text file to entity references, &lt; and &gt;, and
  2. Put the necessary anchor tags at the lines of interest.

(and you could number the lines, if that's not done yet and seems helpful to the reader).

In reply to Re: link html to a specific line in a txt doc by graff
in thread link html to a specific line in a txt doc by Anonymous Monk

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