Re: using vref in latex export, and normal links in html export

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Try:

(setq org-latex-prefer-user-labels t)

I think this does what you want for org 8.3.4 at least.


Alan Schmitt writes:

> Hello Eric,
>
> On 2016-03-11 12:03, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Friday, 11 Mar 2016 at 11:20, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm converting a latex document into org-mode to easily export it both
>>> to latex and html. I've just encountered something that I don't know how
>>> to do: export a \vref reference. I would like to have something that
>>> exports to \vref in latex, and to a normal link in html.
>>>
>>> I thought I could do this trick with a macro:
>>>
>>> #+macro: vref @@latex:\myvref{$1}{@@[[$1]]@@latex:}@@
>>
>> I may be missing something but could you not simply use
>>
>>   [[vref:fig:log-expt-7]]
>>
>> (along with description text if you wished) and define an org link as
>> below?
>>
>> #+begin_src elisp
>>   (org-add-link-type "vref" nil
>>                      (lambda (path desc format)
>>                        (cond
>>                         ((eq format 'latex)
>>                          (format "\\vref{%s}" path)))))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> (untested)
>
> Thank you for the suggestion, but I end up with the same thing as with
> the macro: the reference generated is to "fig:log-expt-7", but this does
> not work as the label assigned by org to the figure is
> "fig:orgparagraph1".
>
> Here is a small example of a similar problem. Exporting this to latex
>
> This is a \ref{fig:foo} and this is a link [[fig:foo]]
>
> #+label: fig:foo
> #+begin_figure
> Test
> #+end_figure
>
> results in
>
> #+begin_src latex
> This is a \ref{fig:foo} and this is a link \ref{orgspecialblock1}
>
> \begin{figure}
> Test
> \label{orgspecialblock1}
> \end{figure}
> #+end_src
>
> Alan


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