Ok, thanks for that, but when I try to convert something like the following:

[USA]{#usa}
: United States of America

The resulting HTML looks like this:

<dt><span id="usa">USA</span></dt>
<dd>
United States of America
</dd>

The hash symbol gets dropped which basically makes that span useless as the
target of an anchor link. I think I’m probably still doing something wrong
but I’m not sure what.

On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 23:57, Bastien DUMONT bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org
<http://mailto:bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Same thing, but on the definition:
>
> Term 1
>
> : Definition 1
>
> : [Definition 2]{#t1-def2}
>
> Term 2
>
> : Definition 1
>
> Here Term 1 has [this meaning](#t1-def2).
>
> You will not get the id on the <dd> element directly, but on a <span>
> inside <dd>.
>
> Le Saturday 11 November 2023 à 10:57:48PM, A A a écrit :
> > 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 <[1]
> > pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >     You can use [2]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
> [3]
> >     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 <[4]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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