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+This is the destination directory for the LDoc documentation of Vis' Lua API
+as generated by the `make luadoc`.
+
+Unfortunately `ldoc(1)` seems to have a bug which generates broken reference
+links for custom types. The following patch seems to fix the issue:
+
+```
+From 96a1fbc8e972fedf665049a6351f46bc1aac1768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc=20Andr=C3=A9=20Tanner?= <mat@brain-dump.org>
+Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:59:17 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix references to class types.
+
+For classes the generated HTML anchors need to be prefixed 'Class_'.
+---
+ ldoc/doc.lua | 6 +++---
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/ldoc/doc.lua b/ldoc/doc.lua
+index e19b2df..f368b90 100644
+--- a/ldoc/doc.lua
++++ b/ldoc/doc.lua
+@@ -1073,9 +1073,9 @@ end
+ local function reference (s, mod_ref, item_ref)
+ local name = item_ref and item_ref.name or ''
+ -- this is deeply hacky; classes have 'Class ' prepended.
+---~ if item_ref and doc.class_tag(item_ref.type) then
+---~ name = 'Class_'..name
+---~ end
++ if item_ref and doc.class_tag(item_ref.type) then
++ name = 'Class_'..name
++ end
+ return {mod = mod_ref, name = name, label=s}
+ end
+
+--
+1.9.1
+```