Re: What's the flow for adding info: links in Org documents?

[Kaushal Modi]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 7:38 AM Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/04/2022 01:26, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:57 AM Max Nikulin wrote:
> >
> >> There are a some problems with info links outside of Emacs:
> >> - Export to PDF
> >
> > Yeah, I recently realized that I will need to add custom support for
> > exporting info: links using ox-hugo. I made a small blog post out of
> > this learning: https://scripter.co/linking-and-exporting-org-info-links/.
>
> I would prefer
>      info "(org) Top"
> to
>      Org Info: Top
> since the former may be pasted to M-x : or to shell command prompt. And
> the link target ideally should be https://orgmode.org/manual/index.html
> Unfortunately there is no way to customize mapping of documents.
>
> >> - Links to single page manuals as the result of export to HTML. E.g.
> >> Emacs manual is really huge
> >
> > I did not understand this. The HTML exports convert an Info node to a
> > hyperlink of the same manual page online.
>
> For <info:emacs#Browse-URL> export to html produces the following link:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Browse_002dURL
> I think, a better variant is
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Browse_002dURL.html
> even though for the Org manual I often prefer single-page HTML version.

Thanks for your feedback! I absorbed almost all of it into ox-hugo and
wrote about it in a followup blog post:
https://scripter.co/improving-ox-hugo-exported-org-info-links/.

You'll see the update info: link examples on that post.