[Qgis-community-team] Fw: rst conversion: problem with references

[Paolo Corti]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Larissa Junek <junek at gbd-consult.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:26:18 +0200
> Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Larissa Junek <junek at gbd-consult.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Begin forwarded message:
>> >
>> > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:59:57 +0200
>> > From: Larissa Junek <junek at gbd-consult.de>
>> > To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> > Subject: rst conversion: problem with references
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > while the call for a reference works fine when I deal with figures,
>> > the link to a section doesn't work.
>> > For example in the plugins_gps.rst I defined:
>> >
>> > "... see section `defining-new-device`_" this is the call for the
>> > reference
>> > ".. _`defining-new-device`:" this is the reference
>> >
>> > Can somebody help? What did I do wrong.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Larissa
>>
>> Larissa,
>> this is the correct syntax:
>>
>> a new type (see section :ref:`defining-new-device`).
>>
>> [......]
>>
>> .. _defining-new-device:
>>
>> Defining new device types
>> -------------------------
>>
>> cheers
>> p
>>
> Hi Paolo,
> the call for the reference still doesn't work.
> Maybe you have a look at the plugins_gps.rst I committed. I want to
> call the reference in the same page, not in another page. Therefore I
> thought that we might need another definition, like it is described in
> the README.rst
> I have this problem in other rst-files, too. Look forward to finding a
> solution.
> Cheers, Larissa
>
>

Hi Larissa
you need to leave an empty line just after the section declaration:


.. _defining-new-device:
(empty line here)
Defining new device types
-------------------------

cheers
p


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