Can a pager item point to an anchor on the page? I'm building a page where, somewhere down in the middle of it, there's a pager of some stuff.  The pager is working fine, but, when you click on one of the pager items, the page is redrawn showing the top of the page, which usually does not include the (now updated) contents of the pager.  This is because the pager item URLs simply refer to the page as a whole.  Is it possible to get a reference to an anchor inserted into the URLs of the pager items, so that the browser will redraw the page with the pager contents in view?
Have you looked at theme_pager_link in Drupal 7. Your site's theme can customize any pager link by implementing YOURTHEME_pager_link and then add additional logic into a copied version of that function to embed anchors as needed.

You can probably embed the anchor as a parameter to the link to be inserted into the querystring:


  parameters: An associative array of query string parameters to append
  to the pager link.