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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: incorrect HTML rendering of info links with spaces
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:40:57 +0200
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Hello,

emacs18@gmail.com (Richard Y. Kim) writes:

> It seems like org-html-publish-to-html does not translate info links
> properly in generated HTML files.  The problem is that spaces in info
> nodes should be converted to dashes, but instead spaces are left as is.
>
> For example org-mode link [[info:elisp#Hash Tables]] is converted as 
>
>     <a href="elisp#Hash Tables">elisp#Hash Tables</a>
>
> when in fact the correct URL that should be generated is
>
>     <a href="elisp.html#Hash-Tables">elisp#Hash Tables</a>
>
> where a dash is used in the URL as well as ".html" suffix.
>
> Why should it be "-" instead of " "?  Simply because that is the
> convention used by GNU makeinfo when translating texinfo files into HTML
> output.  For example
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html#Hash-Tables
>
> is the correct URL rather than this incorrect URL:
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html#Hash%20Tables
>
> So today if I hit C-c C-o on [[info:elisp#Hash Tables]] link, then it
> correctly brings up "(elisp) Hash Tables" info node.  However the
> generated HTML link does not work.  On the other hand
> [[info:elisp#Hash-Tables]] with a dash rather than space generates valid
> HTML link (ignoring missing ".html" suffix), but C-c C-o fails to work.
> It would be very useful if the same org link such as [[info:elisp#Hash
> Tables]] works for both C-c C-o as well as generate valid HTML link.
>
> This issue is important to me, because I would rather use org-mode than
> texinfo to write documentation on emacs packages with many links
> pointing to the official emacs and elisp manuals.  Right now lack of
> proper support for info links in org-mode is the *only* reason why I
> currently use texinfo rather than org-mode.

Done in 7b97b631ef980b9b63ebc3f3fb38295a90ade90d. Thank you.

Note that there is also a texinfo export back-end for Org.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou