Re: [Docutils-users] Cross references across files

[Rich B. <rb...@rc...>]

Many thanks, Pete.


On 08/12/2013 07:29 PM, Pete R. Jemian wrote:
> 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
>


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