From 2e1f2093bad1f000890af999d9f284beec09bf16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Weschke <daniel.weschke@directbox.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 01:24:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] unfix link with a description to a headline

---
 ox-rst.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ox-rst.el b/ox-rst.el
index f97453d..26d7831 100644
--- a/ox-rst.el
+++ b/ox-rst.el
@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ INFO is a plist holding contextual information."
                  (if (plist-get info :rst-link-use-ref-role)
                      (if desc (format " :ref:`%s <%s>`" desc raw-path)
                        (format " :ref:`%s`" raw-path))
-                   (if desc (format "`%s <%s>`_" desc raw-path)
+                   (if desc (format "`<%s>`_" raw-path)  ;; desc cannot be used w/o a :role:
                      (format "`%s`_" raw-path)))
                (format "`%s`_" (org-rst--build-title destination info nil))))
           ;; Fuzzy link points to a target.