Re: EPUB toc for whole book?

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

+++ niczero [Apr 29 12 14:18 ]:
>    On Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:31:27 UTC+1, fiddlosopher wrote:
> 
>      +++ niczero [Apr 29 12 06:49 ]:
>      >    It would be very useful if there was a --qualified_auto_links
>      that made
>      >    all
>      >    auto links be qualified with their chapter ref.
>      >    Currently
>      >    # Foo
>      >    ## Bar
>      >    means the subheading gets an auto link of "bar", but I'd like
>      the
>      >    option
>      >    of having it as "foo_bar" so it's not impacted by the
>      possibility of
>      >    another chapter having a (sub)heading of 'Bar'.
>      Pandoc won't produce duplicate identifiers.  If you have two
>      sections named "Bar", the first will get the id "bar", and the
>      second will get "bar-1", etc. See the README section on header
>      identifiers.
>      Also see the --id-prefix option.
>      John
> 
>    ----
>    The trouble is, my links are generated by code, and the code can't
>    easily predict whether it should link to bar-23 or bar-32; in fact it
>    currently doesn't know that 'bar' is wrong, so all links end up
>    pointing at the first instance of 'bar'.  However it's natural to know
>    which chapter you're linking to, so having a predictable per-chapter
>    prefix would solve such problems.  This isn't just a problem with
>    generated links, it gets much worse if you're trying to do the job
>    manually.
>    My reading of '--id-prefix' suggests I can't use it per chapter and
>    still have inter-chapter links working.  Is that right?
>    Nic

--id-prefix could work for you if you're calling pandoc on chapter-size
units.  You just need to make sure you include the prefix in the
identifiers you link to.  But this may not work for your purposes.