Re: Reference Links with ../DIr type paths

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

If you want reliable links in a PDF, link to a heading or
other anchor.

E.g. in /install/index.md, you'll have a heading

# My heading {#foobar}

and then in /access-authentication/install-rbac/index.md,
you'll link to

[here](#foobar)




"'russurquhart1' via pandoc-discuss"
<pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Having some issues with getting this to work. I have the following 
> directory structure:
>
> /access-authentication
>    /install-rbac
>       index.md
> /install
>    index.md
>
> The first index.md file has a link like the following:
>
> - Version 1.4 or [higher](../../install/index.md)
>
> Clicking that link, in the generated PDF, causes a message saying it 
> doesn't know what to do with that URL.
>
> If i leave it as, just for grins:
>
> - Version 1.4 or [higher](../../install)
>
> The text shows like it should be a link but is not.
>
> Is this due to concatenating all the files from a list.txt file and passed 
> to Pandoc via xargs? 
> Thanks again!!
>
> Russ
>
> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 4:43:14 PM UTC-5 russurquhart1 wrote:
>
>> Very cool! (As a tech writer, may I suggest that you add this as an 
>> example to your docs, or at least front facing ones as I didn't see it!) 
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>>
>> Russ
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 3:14:10 PM UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>> Relative paths are okay.
>>>
>>> "'russurquhart1' via pandoc-discuss"
>>> <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > On the heels of John's help, I'mhoping to be able to cross another 
>>> thing 
>>> > off my preprocessing script.
>>> >
>>> > I know that a Markdown reference link can be of the form:
>>> >
>>> > [Here is the link](/foo/bar/index.md)
>>> >
>>> > The Markdown we use allows for links like:
>>> >
>>> > [Here is the link](../../two_directories_up/index.md)
>>> >
>>> > (Actually it provides a shortcut of:
>>> >
>>> > [Here is the link](../../two_directories_up)
>>> >
>>> > My concern is the '../' parent directory directive. Is there a way for 
>>> the 
>>> > Pandoc Markdown parser to resolve this correctly, or will i have to add 
>>> > something in the preprocessor to resolve the full path name?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks again for all the help!!
>>> >
>>> > Russ
>>> >
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