Re: [bug?] Link to be exported only in HTML

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

Hi Sebastien,

Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> #+TITLE:     ECM Links for HTML only
>
> * Test
>
> If I want to include a link (GPL logo, here) to the HTML export, I should put it
> in a block, right?
>
> #+begin_html
> [[http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0][http://img.shields.io/:license-gpl-blue.svg]]
> #+end_html
>
> Well, that does not work: the link is not rendered as a link; it's copied
> "verbatim".
>
> OTOH, the link on its own is correctly exported to HTML:
>
> [[http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0][http://img.shields.io/:license-gpl-blue.svg]]
>
> ... but it fails to be exported to LaTeX (causing a "TeX capacity exceeded"
> error), reason why I must not have the link when exporting to LaTeX.
>
> Is this a bug?  Is there an alternative?

As far as I understand, this is not a bug: #+begin_html ... #+end_html
is for writing literal HTML that will be included in HTML output.

Thus, if you only care about the link appearing in HTML output, just use
literal HTML:

#+begin_html
<a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0"><img src="http://img.shields.io/:license-gpl-blue.svg"></a>
#+end_html

(That is hand-translated...you should check whether it is the right HTML for your document.)
 
Best,
Richard