[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: muse, latex, hyper-links, and labels

[Michael Olson]

Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:

> Is anyone working on implementing labels for the latex publishing
> style?  I see from the archives that there has been some discussion
> about the hyper-linking, but I can't find anything conclusive.
>
> It would be far more natural latex, in my opinion, to have
> cross-references within a document rendered as \label{foo} and
> \ref{foo}.  I haven't used hyperref much, but it seems that it
> automatically converts these into hyper-links anyway.  And this
> could be extended to inter-document links using xr.sty.
>
> What I would like is for all anchors that are not links---i.e., just
> `#foo' on its own---wherever they may appear, to be converted to
> \label{foo}, and all links with anchors, or at least those that link
> to anchors in their own page, to be converted to some kind of
> \ref{foo} markup.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

I didn't realize there was a \label{} tag.  This seems like a nice
solution to the anchor problem.  I've now implemented this in
patch-253.

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