How do I make a reference to a figure in markdown using pandoc?

Question

I\'m currently writing a document in markdown and I\'d like to make a reference to an image from my text.

this is my text, I want a reference to my image1 [h         


        

Answer 1

Pandoc supports referencing sections (via section identifiers prefixed by #).

Comments on this open issue describe how the following workaround leverages section identifiers for generating image references in LaTeX and HTML:

![A voyage to the moon\label{fig:lalune}](lalune.jpg)



[The voyage to the moon](#fig:lalune).

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