I dug a little bit into the export code and it looks like the default
function for formatting TOC entries is `org-export-toc-entry-backend',
which explicitly states that "...it changes links and radio targets into
regular text." It does take an optional set of transcoders, so I tried
changing where it gets called in ox-html.el to pass a custom transcoder for
links:
@@ -2589,7 +2589,9 @@ INFO is a plist used as a communication channel."
(org-element-property :priority headline)))
(text (org-export-data-with-backend
(org-export-get-alt-title headline info)
- (org-export-toc-entry-backend 'html)
+ (org-export-toc-entry-backend 'html
+ `(link . ,(lambda (l c i)
+ (org-html-link l c i))))
info))
(tags (and (eq (plist-get info :with-tags) t)
(org-export-get-tags headline info))))
With some minimal testing this does appear to work, at least with the test
case I created. I don't know that we want to make a default behavior
change, so it might be better to provide a defcustom to either control
HTML-ified links or to allow for a custom format function. There may
already be one, I'm not that familiar with ox-html.el and didn't have time
to fully review the file.
Cheers,
Derek
On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 7:07 AM Derek Chen-Becker <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Owned. Let me take a look and see what I can figure out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Derek
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 11:29 PM Bastien Guerry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Derek Chen-Becker <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > Confirmed, on HEAD.
>>
>> I'm updating the subject so that BARK sees this as a bug.
>>
>> Confirmed.
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>>
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