How to point ref to the document that includes another document in a Sphinx project?

Question

I have a directory of restructuredtext files.

Index.rst has a :ref: to a section in table.rst.

table.rst is included in Footnotes.rst using the .. include:: directive.

After Sphinx renders the files as html, the link in Index.html points to table.html, instead of Footnotes.html. How can I get the link to point to Footnotes.html, where table.html is included?

Answer 1

Try using

:doc:`Footnotes.rst`