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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el ---
 CUSTOM_ID-as-section-label-in-latex-export
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:48:17 +0200
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Hello,

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> From c087e84a8fd80b277bf064eb31f1b893c25f1b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:25:03 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] CUSTOM_ID as section label in latex export
>
>   When exporting to HTML, custom ids of headlines become references to
>   the resulting section in the exported document.  This is both more
>   stable and more readable than using section numbers.  This commit adds
>   this option to the latex exporter.

Thanks for the patch.

Though, it isn't as stable as relying on section numbers: there is no
guarantee the custom id will be unique nor that it will not contain any
forbidden character.

This patch also breaks cross references, which expects labels to be
built from section number (see `org-latex-link').

Since you (almost?) never need to write \ref{custom-id} in the Org
buffer, I don't think it is bad to keep current label system.

Another option would be to have both \label{sec-...} and
\label{custom-id}. But it would require the user to check validity of
its id.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou