Re: Anchors/targets in org-export/publish

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

On Nov 13, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

>
> Question about org-export:
>
> I'd like to create invisible radio targets to html anchor links using
> org-export.
>
> E.g.,
>
> # <<radiotarget>>
>
> should become
>
> <a name="radiotarget"></a>
>
> Currently, however, there are a couple of behaviors of org-exp.el that
> make this difficult.
>
> 1) Org-export does convert invisible targets, but it puts paragraph
> tags around the anchor, thus creating an empty line in the html
> export, which messes up the layout.
>
>         <p>
>         <a name="radiotarget">&nbsp;</a>
>         </p>

Hmmm, admittedly, this is not pretty.

>
>
> 2) If the commented radio target is directly beneath or above a
> headline, it is not exported. I checked org-exp.el and this seems to
> be an intentional behavior. I'm not sure I understand the reasons
> behind this, as it prevents one from giving custom anchors to
> headlines.
>
> This is especially important if one wants to be able to create
> permalinks to headlines from other pages.

Yes, can see that this application makes sense.  However, the reason  
why I am using the target of the headline instead is because I would  
like the anchor to match at the headline directly.  I could, probably,  
use the specified target instead of the sec-... id, but that also  
feels inconsistent.  Hmmm, I need to think more about this.

I just checked how Muse handles this.  When they have an anchor  
directly above a headline, the anchor is inserted into the definition  
of the headline.  Maybe we can do something like this.

- Carsten