Re: Exporting Hyperlinks ?

[David Masterson]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 02/11/2023 09:11, David Masterson wrote:
>> If I understand what you mean by "anchor", does Org create an anchor in
>> exporting to Latex when it sees a CUSTOM_ID property in an item?  Then,
>> would the search in the hyperlink reference the anchor?  Your examples
>> weren't precise enough for me to follow.
>
> You are right. Despite `org-latex-prefer-user-labels' exists, it
> currently affects LaTeX label names only, so it is possible to
> reference them as #page.2, #section.3, but not as
> #custom_id. ox-beamer however adds \hypertarget{anchor}... for Org
> <<anchor>>, so in PDF it can be referenced as #anchor.
>
> So ox-latex should be improved to add \hypertarget commands for CUSTOM_ID.

I agree.  For a link of:

  [[file:contacts.org::#custom_id][My text]]

the generated LaTeX href looks like

  \href{contacts.tex}{My text}

which looks wrong.

> Originally I suspected only issues with links.
>
> To get links between HTML documents where CUSTOM_ID are not used, it
> is necessary to rely on org-publish to track autogenerated anchors. I
> am unsure if publish works for LaTeX.

I use publish for LaTex (org-latex-publish-to-pdf)

-- 
David Masterson