emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Francesco Pizzolante <fpz@missioncriticalit.com>
Cc: mailing-list-org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: LaTeX export of section links
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <224945F4-65E4-4904-9065-ADF3FE9F4DD2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877htlcjos.fsf@missioncriticalit.com>


On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Francesco Pizzolante wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> * First
>>> :PROPERTIES:
>>> :CUSTOM_ID: heading-a
>>> :END:
>>>
>>> Hello Toto!
>>>
>>> * Second
>>> # <<heading-b>>
>>>
>>> Hello Tata!
>>>
>>> * Third
>>> #+CUSTOM_ID: heading-c
>>>
>>> Hello Titi!
>>>
>>> * Fourth
>>> #+ID: heading-d
>>>
>>> Hello Tete!
>>>
>>> [[heading-a]]
>>> [[heading-b]]
>>> [[heading-c]]
>>> [[heading-d]]
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> Which give the following LaTeX code:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> \section{First}
>>> \label{sec-1}
>>> \label{heading-a}
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Toto!
>>>
>>> \section{Second}
>>> \label{sec-2}
>>> \label{heading-b}
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Tata!
>>>
>>> \section{Third}
>>> \label{sec-3}
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Titi!
>>>
>>> \section{Fourth}
>>> \label{sec-4}
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Tete!
>>>
>>> \hyperref[sec-1]{heading-a}
>>> \hyperref[sec-2]{heading-b}
>>> \hyperref[sec-3]{heading-c}
>>> \hyperref[sec-4]{heading-d}
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> The third and fourth cases are very elegant as they use only  
>>> aliases (which
>>> are dropped from the LaTeX code).
>>
>> Third and forth are non-existent syntax in Org, these lines are  
>> just treated
>> as comments and are removed during export.
>
> OK. But the information in these 2 comments is correctly used to  
> replace the
> alias (heading-c and heading-d) with the label generated by org  
> during the
> export. See the last 2 references in my example: these references  
> are correct.
> They thus have been correctly processed from heading-c and heading-d  
> to sec-3
> and sec-4... these comments are thus not simply removed... right?

This is only by chance, because a simple text search does match these  
two lines.
if you'd happen to have the string headline-a anywhere in the file,  
the link would point to the enclosing section.

>
> In the case of the :CUSTOM_ID: property, the property is also used  
> to convert
> the alias to the label (heading-a to sec-1) but additionally an  
> extra label
> (heading-a) is created and not used.
>
> That's why, when creating references to sections I found the # 
> +CUSTOM_ID very
> elegant... But apparently I don't have to use such syntax...
>

Not if you want to have reliable links, no.

- Carsten


> I wanted to know the recommended way of doing references...
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Francesco

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-20 11:34 LaTeX export of section links Francesco Pizzolante
2009-11-20 12:42 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-20 14:13 ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]   ` <361B87B2-29D2-465C-84BE-A82376059D35-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 15:14     ` Francesco Pizzolante
2009-11-20 15:18       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
     [not found]         ` <224945F4-65E4-4904-9065-ADF3FE9F4DD2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 15:23           ` Francesco Pizzolante

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=224945F4-65E4-4904-9065-ADF3FE9F4DD2@gmail.com \
    --to=carsten.dominik@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=fpz@missioncriticalit.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).