The home article

The "home article" is the first article of the toplevel index file. E.g. in:

index.bigb

= John Smith's Homepage

== I like dogs

then "John Smith's Homepage" is the home article, but "I like dogs" is not.

The home article has some special handling done to it, notably:

it renders as "Home" in many places as such as the breadcrumb, a way to make things more unified and succinct, especially on web
it automatically gets two IDs:
- a main empty ID
- a synonym to that empty ID
For example we could write:
```
= John Smith's Homepage

== I like dogs

This is my homepage: <>

And also: <John Smith's Homepage>
```
Here
- <> renders as "Home"
- <John Smith's Homepage> renders as John Smith's Homepage
but both link to the same location
As a consequence of the ID being empty, you have to set \H parent argument of subsequent headers to empty if you witsh to use them as in:
```
= John Smith's Homepage

= I like dogs
{parent=}
```
Doing:
```
= John Smith's Homepage

= I like dogs
{parent=John Smith's Homepage}
```
doesn't current work because the ID john-smith-s-homepage is just a synonym to the empty ID, and you can't currently set parent= to point to synonyms:
This is because the ID John Smith's Homepage
You can prevent a second ID from being giving by simply setting the ID to be explicitly empty:
```
= John Smith's Homepage
{id=}
```
which would generte just a single empty ID.

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