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 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@gmail.com> 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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