\ref instruction support #509
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Instead of generating a \hyperref instruction, internal links
now generate a \ref instruction, which will render the section
number.
Example Markdown input to trigger new behavior:
[](#introduction)
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Interesting suggestion. The problem I see is that it only works with LaTeX. If you convert to HTML, you get an empty link. It would be good to have a convention that works with all writers. |
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Right. Thing is that I'd ordinarily happily use the native An idea for the HTML writer could be copying the title (although that's not entirely consistent then). At the same time, I'm also struggling with something similar for images. I'd say that referencing sections and images by number is (at least in research papers and such) rather common. |
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Additionally, I've made a tweak that adds the \label tag to images, thus allowing internal references for those - similar to how this works for sections: The statistics are shown in figure [](fig:stats).
Since this breaks things (the title is now shown as caption), I've not added the patch to this PR. This post is merely for future reference, as I can imagine people needing such functionality. The relevant patch can be found here: https://github.com/EmielM/pandoc/tree/internal-refs @jgm: I'll close the PR for now :), do as you see fit with any of the patches. |
Suggestion: instead of generating a \hyperref instruction, internal links without text could generate a \ref instruction, which will render the section number.
Example Markdown input to trigger new behavior:
Take a look at section [](#some-section).Will render something like 'Take a look at section 2.1'