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[RhetoricalRuvim]

In HTML, making a link (anchor) to a paragraph involves adding a named anchor at the location of the paragraph and then making the other link's HTML reference field have a sharp (#) symbol, followed by the name of the anchor to jump to (at least I think they're called anchors).

Is that sort of linking possible with bbcode?

[Alexander]

I do not believe BB-code has any standard. People sometimes create separate posts assuming you are speaking of a forum so that the post identifications can be linked to (#post123).

If your software allows custom substitutions for bbcode then this can easily be performed. i.e.

replace: [anchor]{text}[/anchor] 
with: <a name="{text}"/>

It appears phpBB has this type of replacement:
phpBB • View topic - BBCode Anchor (post 2)

I am sure vB and others do too. It can always be implemented yourself, provided you are daring. Some more information would be required to better speculate.