problem with #id links when id contains spaces

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Bug noted by Colin Adams:

Run pandoc on this input

---
Several moves have been tried for White, but only [P 4e -4f](#4.P 4e -
4f) works reasonably:

and later:

#4.P 4e - 4f
--- 
<p
  >Several moves have been tried for White, but only <a href="#4.P+4e+-
+4f"
    >P 4e –4f</a
    > works reasonably:</p
  >

and:

<div id="p-4e---4f"
  ><h1
    ><a href="#TOC"
      >4.P 4e - 4f</a
      ></h1
    >

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2010 at 5:51

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Original comment by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2010 at 5:52

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My mistake: this is not a bug. See
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#header-identifiers-in-html

Html ID attributes cannot contain spaces.  For that reason, the
id pandoc generates from a title will replace the spaces with hyphens,
as explained in the manual.  It also replaces uppercase with lowercase.
Hence, for the title "P 4e - 4f", the id is:

id="p-4e---4f

This looks a bit weird, because you already had a hyphen in the title.
But the rule is being followed, and it is simple enough to remember.
So, if you want to link to this header, you have to use the generated
id: 
Several moves have been tried for White, but only 
[P 4e -4f](#4.p-4e---4f) works reasonably:

Original comment by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2010 at 6:13

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