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 [here]. blablabla

![image1](img/image1.png)

I want to do that reference because after converting my markdown to pdf, images get placed in one or two pages after and the document doesn't make any sense.

UPDATE:

I've tried Ryan's answer in that post and I can't make it working. Apparently the code :

[image]: image.png "Image Title" 
![Alt text][image] 
A reference to the [image](#image).

should produce:

\begin{figure}[htbp] 
\centering 
\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth,height=0.75\textheight]{i mage.png} 
\caption{Alt text} 
\label{image} 
\end{figure} 

A reference to the image (\autoref{image}).

instead, I obtain:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics{image.png}
\caption{Alt text}
\end{figure}

A reference to the \href{\#image}{image}.

I've noticed two problems :

• \label{image} doesn't appear : no reference is created.
• (\autoref{image}) becomes \href{\#image}{image} : no cross reference is detected.

And then, when I convert that to pdf it obviously doesn't link to the image. There's a link, but it doesn't link to anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Answer 1

In pandoc you can even do:

![This is the caption\label{mylabel}](/url/of/image.png)
See figure \ref{mylabel}.