Html entities on table of content

[finex]

Actual Behavior

I've a heading with something like

* Heading with three dots: ...

When org/ox-hugo generate the toc, the result is:

[Heading with three dots: ...](url)

(where url is the anchor to the section)

Then Hugo exports the following html:

<a href="url">Heading with three dots: &amp;hellip;</a>

Expected Behavior

Markdown/Hugo wants the html entity inside the link in order to generate the correct markup, so ox-hugo should generate the following markdown:

[Heading with three dots: …](url)

Then Hugo, with this markdown code, will produce the correct html output:

<a href="url">Heading with three dots: &hellip;</a>

Workaround:

I'm currently putting … on the org file but it's not a great solution.

What do you think about?

[finex]

I've also noticed that if I put & or simply & on the md file, Hugo will render this code in & in each case, instead of &, so maybe there is a bug on their side.

[kaushalmodi]

With this Markdown:

[Heading with three dots: ...](url)

Hugo is generating:

<a href="url">Heading with three dots: &amp;hellip;</a>

So it looks like a Hugo/Goldmark bug.

Can you create a ticket on the hugo repo?

[kaushalmodi]

Possible workaround in ox-hugo:

• In org-hugo--headline-title, post process the heading string through org-html-convert-special-strings (See C-h v org-html-special-string-regexps).

[finex]

With this Markdown:

[Heading with three dots: ...](url)

Hugo is generating:

<a href="url">Heading with three dots: &amp;hellip;</a>

So it looks like a Hugo/Goldmark bug.

Can you create a ticket on the hugo repo?

yes, of course, I will link here the ticket just for future reference :-)

[finex]

Hugo bug reference: gohugoio/hugo#7346

[finex]

@kaushalmodi hi, after some test I've found it was a theming problem due to missing | renderHTML on the custom render link template. :-)

[mrprofessor]

Ugh! I had the same issue. Thank you @finex @kaushalmodi