Thanks for the advice, I think the .. include:: method will work adequately for me.
-Christian On Oct 7, 5:13 am, Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/06/11 22:00, Christian Rohling wrote: > > > Hey everyone, I am new to sphinx, and am using it to document a project. I > > have run into a something that I feel I should be able to do, but cannot > > find out how. I want to reference a hyperlink section from another file, > > for example: > > > file_a.rst: :ref:`tag_in_file_b` > > > file_b.rst: .. tag_in_file_b:http://www.example.com > > > I have tried to do this, but so far it doesn't really seem to be working. I > > can access the hyperlink within the same rst file just fine using something > > like 'tag_in_file_b'_ ....but not with the :ref: tag. Any input would be > > greatly appreciated. > > This isn't possible, and I would argue that if it worked it would also be > misleading: :ref: is supposed to make internal references, not external > hyperlinks. > > What you can do is to put your hyperlink references in a common include file, > and to include that (using ``.. include::``) in all files where you need it > (if you use it from everywhere, you can also use the rst_epilog config value.) > > cheers, > Georg > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6Owp0ACgkQN9GcIYhpnLBzzQCgpbWKR6fJQrXTYxXBqW1ApqfA > MdIAoKJyWxzKTVEYxn5lArc1khQgo127 > =+xsh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
