Automatically treat relative links as cross-references

I don’t know if this is within scope or not. It would be nice if relative links like

[link](page.html)

or

[link](page.html#header)

were automatically translated to cross-references, and especially if it didn’t require adding a (header)= to the header if the slug is already named that.

The former does not work at all (it produces an error). The latter does work, but I believe it is just treating it like an external link, meaning if there is a spelling mistake in the page.html#header part it won’t catch it.

A potential issue might be that Myst documents could be included alongside other documents, so you can’t guarantee that a page that you can’t find a reference to isn’t something that will be there anyway. I don’t know if that is the case.

[asmeurer]

Oh I didn’t know about that. I’ll give it a try. If you don’t want to make this a default that’s fine with me. I’ll leave you to discuss that. Either way though maybe Myst could document that it’s an option in the cross-reference docs.

[pradyunsg]

Yeap!