Re: Org-mode ASCII Export to support numbered references for links

[Samuel Wales]

idk but you can put them in place using org-ascii-links-to-notes for a
dry effect.

On 12/12/21, Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io> wrote:
> Org-mode's ascii export uses the link's description to create a reference to
> it at the end of the document. For example, a link to google will look like
> this:
>
> ,----
> | This is a [link to google].
> |
> | [link to google] <https://www.google.com>
> `----
>
> Is there a way to modify this behavior to using a number reference rather
> than link description? Such as:
>
> ,----
> |
> | This is a link to google[1].
> |
> | [1] <https://www.google.com>
> `----
>
> The reasoning behind this is that using numbers is more intuitive (as it is
> the common practice it plain text posts, emails etc.) Also, when there are
> two different links with the same description, the export is going to be
> confusing to the reader. This happens when I use the description "link".
>
>
>


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