Re: [Docutils-users] Cross references across files

[Pete R. J. <je...@an...>]

you should ask this on the sphinx list

but here is the answer:

change:  `whatever`_
to:      :ref:`whatever`

On 08/12/2013 06:02 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using rST to write a book, and it consists of several chapter files.
> Cross references work fine if the reference is in the same chapter, but
> when it's in a different chapter (file) it fails.
>
> So:
>
> .. _whatever:
>
> in one file and
>
> A link to `whatever`_ in another file
>
> gives me a
>
> ERROR: Unknown target name: "whatever".
>
> on build.
>
> I'm using sphinx to build - so if I need to go ask the question over
> there instead, that's fine.
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can give to get this working.
>
> --Rich
>
>