From: ST <smntov@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>,
org-mode-email <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>,
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Structured links to headings with endless depth
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:11:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521051115.1930.108.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8pin5yq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 14:26 +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I think this kind of linking is useful for many general cases. Christian
> > has expressed concerns that such links are easily breakable which is
> > true but only for documents that are in draft phase (or those which are
> > supposed to be restructured on regular basis - like ToDo lists). However
> > documents that has been published, like books or scientific papers, and
> > will no longer change - will benefit greatly from such linking option.
> > Imagine you have a scientific paper in your archive that you have
> > already published and removed write access from it in order not to
> > change it accidentally. You do want to reference certain
> > chapter:section:subsection from it in your new paper, which you are
> > currently writing, but creating a target <<chapter:section:subsection>>
> > in the old paper is no longer an option...
> >
> > So may I ask as a feature request, to please add, following link type as
> > standard to the org-mode:
> >
> > [[path/to/file.org::chapter:section:subsection:etc:optional target]]
> >
> > - chapter/section/subsection could be also just numbers
> > - optional target target might be <<optional target target>>
> > - there is no need to add '*' (like
> > [[path/to/file.org::*chapter:section]] to the link, as ':' after '::'
> > imply that headings are referred.
> >
> > Thank you!
>
> Again, even in the case you are talking about, CUSTOM_ID is better, for
> at least two reasons:
> - it leads to much simpler links: [[file.org::#my-id]]
Why [[file.org::#1:2:1]] is nicer than [file.org::1:2:1]]?
> - it translates nicely to "id" tag in HTML.
You can generate the "id" tag in HTML like this 1-2-1 (if HTML dislikes
1:2:1 tag)
>
> I understand this was not so useful in your use case (only headlines, no
> contents), but, it is still valid as a general mechanism.
Isn't a good idea to add such a built in link type in the long term?
Thank you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-14 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-12 10:09 Structured links to headings with endless depth ST
2018-03-12 10:29 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-03-12 10:39 ` ST
2018-03-12 13:08 ` Christian Moe
2018-03-12 13:46 ` ST
2018-03-12 14:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-03-12 15:08 ` ST
2018-03-14 3:49 ` John Kitchin
2018-03-14 6:58 ` Michael Brand
2019-05-06 16:34 ` Michael Brand
2019-05-07 3:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2019-05-07 14:39 ` Michael Brand
2019-05-18 10:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2018-03-14 10:10 ` ST
2018-03-14 13:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-03-14 18:11 ` ST [this message]
2018-03-14 18:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-03-14 18:46 ` ST
2018-03-14 14:15 ` John Kitchin
2018-03-14 18:07 ` ST
2018-03-12 12:43 ` ST
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