You can use bracketed spans
<https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-bracketed_spans> to do this
manually, as in:

[Term 1]{#term-1}
...
Reference to [Term 1](#term-1).

We use an *auto-identifiers.lua* filter that I could probably add to
pandoc-ext <https://github.com/pandoc-ext>. This will auto-derive the
identifiers from the span content. This allows you to write this:

[Term 1]{}
...
Reference to [Term 1]().

or this (the t: is used as a prefix):

[Term 1]{#t:}
...
Reference to [Term 1](#t:).

The latter example generates this HTML.

<dt><span id="t:term-1">Term 1</span></dt>
...
<p>Reference to <a href="#t:term-1">Term 1</a>.</p>

On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 12:14, A A <amine.aboufirass-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Pandoc will convert the following markdown:
>
> Term 1
>
> : Definition 1
>
> : Definition 2
>
> Term 2
>
> : Definition 1
>
> To the following HTML:
>
> <dl>
> <dt>Term 1</dt>
> <dd>
> <p>Definition 1</p>
> </dd>
> <dd>
> <p>Definition 2</p>
> </dd>
> <dt>Term 2</dt>
> <dd>
> <p>Definition 1</p>
> </dd>
> </dl>
>
> How easy/straightforward is it to assign identifiers to specific
> *definition* items in markdown? For example such that the resulting HTML
> looks like the following:
>
> <dl>
> <dt>Term 1</dt>
> <dd id="def-1-term-1">
> <p>Definition 1</p>
> </dd>
> <dd>
> <p>Definition 2</p>
> </dd>
> <dt>Term 2</dt>
> <dd>
> <p>Definition 1</p>
> </dd>
> </dl>
>
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