Re: [O] Use id property as anchor in the Table of Contents

[Bernt Hansen]

Pere Quintana Seguí <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Org-mode to publish my website. One of my site's pages has
> a lot of sections and the number of sections is increasing rapidly. 
>
> My problem is that the HTML exporter, in the Table of Contents, is
> using the section numbers as anchors. As the section numbers change
> with time, I can't get stable links across versions of the document. 
>
> As many of the sections (headings) have id properties, I'd like the
> HTML exporter to use them as anchor for the Table of Contents, when
> available.
>
> Is this possible? I didn't find an answer in the manual.
>
> As an example. This is the document I'm working on:
> http://pere.quintanasegui.com/diccionari-tecnologia.html#sec-2-78
>
> As you can see, section 2.78, called RSS, has the anchor sec-2-78. If
> the anchor was its id "04E3903E-EAF1-499F-98CD-9E3E4BA0806A", the
> link would remain the same in the future. I don't mind if the URL is
> not human readable. Sec-2-78 isn't human readable too.

Hi Pere,

You can manually provide CUSTOM_ID properties.  These ids are used in
the TOC.

e.g.

* Reminders
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CUSTOM_ID: Reminders
  :END:

for 

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Reminders

I don't know if there is a way to use the ID property automatically.

Regards,
Bernt