On 2009-06-22, Simon King wrote:

> Hi!

> In some doc string, I have:

...

> .. [Wilkerson] Clarence Wilkerson, *A primer on the Dickson
> invariants,* Proceedings of the Northwestern Homotopy Theory
> Conference (Evanston, Ill., 1982), *Contemp. Math.,* **19** (1983),
> 421--434.

...

> ... After [Pham] appears (in italics) (1, 2, 3) where 1, 2, and 3 link
> with anchors on the same page -- but aparently these anchors do not
> exist.

These are backlinks, it seems like you have 3 references to [Pham].

> And [Wilkerson] is a link to the first of these anchors (although
> above I did not write [Wilkerson]_, so it should not be a link).

It should. It's a backlink as well.

This is documented in
http://docutils.sf.net/docutils/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#citations

> What have I done wrong?

Maybe nothing and citation handling is broken if the source is in
docstrings.

Maybe using citation syntax was not the right choice.

Günter


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