I think writing http:foo.html is a bad idea because typing that string in other contexts is sort of meaningless as a URL. Until now, everything one types in org-mode sort of has meaning elsewhere. If you want it to look like a url in this case too then I'd suggest file:foo.html -- rther than http:file.html.
I did not suggest that earlier because it's more chars to type, but that's not a huge concern since emacs does the typing, and we could always augment c-c c-l to enable authoring of relative links with file completion. so file:a/b/c.html would become href="a/b/c.html" in the generated html. >>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:33 PM, T. V. Raman wrote: Carsten> >> I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that >> to author a relative URL is a bad idea. Carsten> Carsten> Can you explain why you think that this is a bad Carsten> idea? Educate me! What is wrong with writing Carsten> http:foo.html ?????? Carsten> Carsten> - Carsten Carsten> >> > > I tried ./foo.html and that didn't work either. One compromise >> would be to get ./foo.html to link to a relative url, >> while foo.html continues to link to a local anchor >> >>>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> writes: Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:49 AM, T. V. Raman wrote: Carsten> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> org-export turns links of the form [[foo][link to >>>> relative url foo]] >>>> >>>> ends up creating links of the form <a >>>> href="#foo">...</a> >>>> >>>> this means that it becomes impossible to write >>>> hyperlinks that are relative URLs. Carsten> Carsten> Hi Raman, Carsten> Carsten> the url goes into the first pair of square brackets, Carsten> the description into the second. If you put Carsten> something into the first bracket pair that does not Carsten> look lie a url, it will be treated as an internal Carsten> link. Carsten> Carsten> Have you tried to use something like Carsten> Carsten> [[http:foo.html][link to relative url]] Carsten> Carsten> ? Carsten> Carsten> - Carsten >> >> -- >> Best Regards, --raman >> >> >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: >> tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs -- Best Regards, --raman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode