Footnote back-reference not working for citations

[shimizukawa]

With this minimal example (and possibly text added between the citation and the footnote) for citations taken from http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html#citations , the back-reference linking back from the footnote to the original citation is not working right. For footnote, it works, but for citations, the id which the back-reference links to is never created in the html document. In other words, add lots of lines of text between the citation and footnote, click on the first citation and you get taken to the bottom of the page. Click on the back-link, and nothing happens, whereas one should get taken back up.

Thanks so much for sphinx, it is really awesome!! Thanks for all your work!

Lorem ipsum [Ref]_ dolor sit amet.

.. [Ref] Book or article reference, URL or whatever.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/972
• Originally reported by: Anonymous
• Originally created at: 2012-07-15T23:59:01.293

[shimizukawa]

From Matthias Troffaes on 2012-09-05 12:11:03+00:00

This is reported downstream as well:

https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex/issues/11

It seems that the id of the back-reference in the citation node does not match the id of the citation_reference node.

[shimizukawa]

From Nozomu Kaneko on 2012-12-19 09:04:29+00:00

duplicate issue: #1058

And there is also a pullreq (pull request #97) to fix the issue.

[shimizukawa]

From Matthias Troffaes on 2012-12-19 10:33:55+00:00

Awesome! Thanks a lot. I'll test it at the soonest possible occasion.

[shimizukawa]

From Matthias Troffaes on 2013-06-06 13:03:09+00:00

Citation backlinks appear to work in Sphinx 1.2b1 (not in 1.1.3, oddly, although footnote backlinks do work in 1.1.3), so I think this issue can be closed.

[shimizukawa]

From Takayuki Shimizukawa on 2013-06-07 00:26:34+00:00

Duplicate of #1058.

[shimizukawa]

From Takayuki Shimizukawa on 2013-06-07 00:27:17+00:00

Matthias Troffaes Thanks to confirm!