John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Sharon Kimble <boudic...@skimble.plus.com> writes: >> >>> I'm writing a document which is exported to latex and then built into a >>> PDF where I might have 'Alcohol', just as an example, mentioned several >>> times in different level headings. Currently I'm using org links like >>> this [[*Alcohol][Alcohol]] but that only allows me to link to one >>> heading only. >>> >>> I've tried using links like this >>> [[id:542d0880-c0fd-46d5-b75d-4cc6f5fa99cc][Alcohol]] and under the >>> heading that I'm linking to it says - >>> >>> *** Alcohol >>> :PROPERTIES: >>> :ID: 542d0880-c0fd-46d5-b75d-4cc6f5fa99cc >>> :END: >>> > > This works for me: > > #+begin_example > > * Alcohol > :PROPERTIES: > :ID: c8f90f00-4e36-41b7-b7fe-e52966e36d1d > :END: > > Something > > \newpage > > * Another heading > > Blah blah blah, see [[id:c8f90f00-4e36-41b7-b7fe-e52966e36d1d][Alcohol]] > > #+end_example > > From page 2 I jump up to the page 1 alcohol heading. > > Not sure if you need it, but I'm assuming you load org-id? > >
I ran into a problem like this a week or two ago, where [id:xxx] links were not working. Michael Welle suggested loading org-id and that resolved my problem. I do think however that the message I was getting was unhelpful (something like "Link not found. Create a new heading?"), even though there was nothing wrong with the link. -- Nick
