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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Target and link text normalised to `orgtargetn'
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:08:52 +0200
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Hi,

I found a partial answer.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
> I am exporting Org files to LaTeX.  I noticed something strange
> happening.  The text of all my target text gets changed to `orgtargetn'
> where n is some number.  This breaks a lot of my LaTeX specific links.
> 
> For example, I use the varioref package to get entity specific

Typo here, the package name is actually refstyle.

> references, so \secref{sec:foo}, \figref{fig:bar}, \tabref{sec:baz} (it
> even takes care of language, or punctuation as needed!).  Now if the
> target text changes from sec:foo to orgtarget1, of course the link
> breaks.

The commit 4bbc054 introduces a variable org-latex-prefer-user-labels.
which is reponsible for this behaviour.  Setting this variable to t
doesn't entirely solve my problem though.  Normal targets like
<<par:interesting>> are still altered.

I think the docstring hints at that already.

  For headlines that do not define the CUSTOM_ID property or elements
  without a NAME, Org will continue to use its default labeling scheme
  to generate labels and resolve links into proper references.

I guess a bare target is an element without a NAME.  I find this a bit
strange, since the user already adds the target manually.  So I think it
is already the user's responsibility to ensure it is consistent.
Shouldn't then Org leave this unchanged?

Thanks,

-- 
Suvayu

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