Re: export to html and relative links:

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hmmmm,

this is *such* a good idea, that I will implement this retroactively
into all versions since ... 2.0 or so?  Abracadabra! Done.

In fact, it has been working just so for a very long time.

file:foo.html   -> href="foo.html"
file:foo.org    -> href="foo.html"

The second line assumes that the org file foo.org will also
be converted to an html file in the publishing process....

Also, I was mistaken earlier:

http:foo.html  becomes   href="http:foo.html" and not href="foo.html"

so this actually cannot be used for a local link.

So what remains from this exchange?  Should we accept links
that look like absolute file names (including ./foo.html) as
equivalent to file:./foo.html ?

- Carsten

On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:25 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:

>
> I think writing http:foo.html is a bad idea because typing that
> string in other contexts is sort of meaningless as a URL.
> Until now, everything one types in org-mode sort of has meaning
> elsewhere. If you want it to look like a url in this case too
> then I'd suggest file:foo.html -- rther than http:file.html.
>
> I  did not suggest that earlier because it's more chars to type,
> but that's not a huge concern since emacs does the typing, and we
> could always augment c-c c-l to enable authoring of relative
> links with file completion.
>
> so file:a/b/c.html would become href="a/b/c.html" in the
> generated html.
>
>>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>    Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:33 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
>    Carsten>
>>> I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that
>>> to author a relative URL is a bad idea.
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> Can you explain why you think that this is a bad
>    Carsten> idea?  Educate me!  What is wrong with writing
>    Carsten> http:foo.html ??????
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> - Carsten
>    Carsten>
>>>
>>
>> I tried ./foo.html and that didn't work either. One compromise
>>> would be to get ./foo.html to link to a relative url,
>>> while foo.html continues to link to a local anchor
>>>
>>>>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
>>>>>>>> writes:
>    Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:49 AM, T. V. Raman wrote:
>    Carsten>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> org-export turns links of the form [[foo][link to
>>>>> relative url foo]]
>>>>>
>>>>> ends up creating links of the form <a
>>>>> href="#foo">...</a>
>>>>>
>>>>> this means that it becomes impossible to write
>>>>> hyperlinks that are relative URLs.
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> Hi Raman,
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> the url goes into the first pair of square brackets,
>    Carsten> the description into the second.  If you put
>    Carsten> something into the first bracket pair that does not
>    Carsten> look lie a url, it will be treated as an internal
>    Carsten> link.
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> Have you tried to use something like
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> [[http:foo.html][link to relative url]]
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> ?
>    Carsten>
>    Carsten> - Carsten
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