Hello

On 25 February 2013 16:48, Subhan Tindall <subhan.tindall@rentrakmail.com>wrote:

> I don't think there is a specific context that can clearly separate
> them. The differences are largely semantic, not syntactic. What is
> needed is some sort of marker on the tag in the original file telling
>  it what kind of link is to be used.
>

Agreed, although there is a semi-syntactic method potentially.


>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I had to compare these possible outcomes when working on the texinfo
> >> exporter.  Since links are parsed before being included in their
> >> paragraphs, I did not have a way to obtain context and therefore
> >> attempt to guess (and be successful) at which type of reference was
> >> intended by a link in Org.
> >
> > What kind of context would you need to know? The string that will be
> > exported just before the current ref link?
> >


 For @xref{} I would need to know if it was at the start of a sentence and
followed
by a comma or period.
For @pxref{} I would need to determine if it was at end of sentence,
mid sentence followed by a comma or within parentheses, and not preceeded by
"see" or "see".  Although even this would not suffice, since there are
contexts where
@ref{} is the better choice.

Allowing for attributes on the links would allow for differentiating,
however the
alternative (which is the current behaviour) is just to create them all as
@ref{} and
then include the semantic context (See, see or nil) as appropriate for
export.

Regards,

Jon


> > Regards,
> >
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