Re: export to html and relative links:

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

On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:33 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:

> I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that to
> author a relative URL is a bad idea.

Can you explain why you think that this is a bad idea?
Educate me!  What is wrong with writing http:foo.html ??????

- 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
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> --raman
>
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