Re: [Docutils-users] reference role?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2021-07-06, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> Would it make sense to add ``reference`` to the standard roles?

This is a long-standing TODO issue. See
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/dev/todo.html#object-numbering-and-object-references
.

> Related aside: the ``rst2latex`` writer needs to move the figure label
> to *after* the caption, otherwise ``--reference-label=ref``
> does not work correctly (i.e., does not produce the figure number).

This option (like -use-bibtex) is experimental, undocumented and
currently non-maintained.

Could you file an enhancement report?

Günter