in org-html-link local links of the form
"/some/path/to/file"
are rewritten as
"file:///some/path/to/file".
This makes it difficult to write root-relative URL's in the way that one might expect to be able to (so that export produces links like
<img src="/static/images/unicorn.jpg"/>
Is this really the most desirable behaviour? In html export, at least, I would think most users would want to allow links of the kind I described. But this seems like a conscious design decision; cf. these lines from org-html-link:
;; If file path is absolute, prepend it with protocol
;; component - "file://".
(cond
((file-name-absolute-p raw-path)
(setq raw-path (org-export-file-uri raw-path)))
((and home use-abs-url)
(setq raw-path (concat (file-name-as-directory home) raw-path))))
I'm wondering whether a user oculd at least set a defcustom to control this behaviour.
Thanks,
Matt