Re: [FR] [Revived] Human readable / customizable link anchors during export

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:

>> 3. Instead of trying to find a silver bullet for human-readable anchor
>>    generator, we allow users to customize it. The default will be
>>    constant "org" yielding "org-Ajjq"-type anchors, just like we have
>>    now. But we can also provide other generators, like the one Timothy
>>    proposed, or better versions contributed in future if there is
>>    demand.
>
> Personally, I'd be wholly satisfied with a customization option; the
> grail for me would be [pandoc's algorithm], which doesn't look too hard
> to reimplement in one's config.
>
> (Although the collision-handling logic could be tricky: since it
> revolves around appending a counter to the ID, it needs to keep track of
> how many times the same ID has been generated for the whole document.
> If the generator API is just {heading ↦ ID}, i.e. there is no extra
> "context" argument, one will need to do some bookkeeping "on the
> side"…)

The collision-handling should not concern the anchor generator code. If
an anchor generator returns a duplicate ID, we can just append some
symbols to make it unique. All the bookkeeping has to be made in
centralized way on ox.el side.

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