Re: indirect references to citations

Guenter Milde via Docutils-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-07-18, Alan Isaac wrote:
I expected this_ to work, but it produced an invalid link.

.. this:: [mycite]_

.. [mycite]
    My Citation Details.

> Are such indirect references allowed?

Yes, if you use the correct syntax::

  .. _this: [mycite]_
  
  .. [mycite]
      My Citation Details.

(In your example, you used a *directive* "this".)

Günter


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