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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el --- CUSTOM_ID-as-section-label-in-latex-export
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:08:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj07xwpl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppvbv4j2.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:48:17 +0200")

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From c087e84a8fd80b277bf064eb31f1b893c25f1b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:25:03 -0600
>> Subject: [PATCH] CUSTOM_ID as section label in latex export
>>
>>   When exporting to HTML, custom ids of headlines become references to
>>   the resulting section in the exported document.  This is both more
>>   stable and more readable than using section numbers.  This commit adds
>>   this option to the latex exporter.
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> Though, it isn't as stable as relying on section numbers: there is no
> guarantee the custom id will be unique nor that it will not contain any
> forbidden character.
>
> This patch also breaks cross references, which expects labels to be
> built from section number (see `org-latex-link').
>

Oh, I see now that I can simply use [[#id]] links and they will be
translated as appropriate.  This will then also resolve these references
if I export the paper to HTML.

Thanks for the explanation,

>
> Since you (almost?) never need to write \ref{custom-id} in the Org
> buffer, I don't think it is bad to keep current label system.
>
> Another option would be to have both \label{sec-...} and
> \label{custom-id}. But it would require the user to check validity of
> its id.
>
>
> Regards,

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-24 16:26 [PATCH] ox-latex.el --- CUSTOM_ID-as-section-label-in-latex-export Eric Schulte
2013-06-24 16:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-06-24 17:08   ` Eric Schulte [this message]

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