Thanks William, this will certainly come in handy, however I was asking
about linking to specific *definitions*, not *terms*, i.e. in the case
where I have multiple definitions for a single term, I'd like to be able to
link to only one of them from another definition or from the main body of
my document....

On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 16:02, 'William Lupton' via pandoc-discuss <
pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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