I'm having trouble understanding why the attached file fails with:

structure       : subject @ level 3 : 0.0.0 -> Information
! Undefined control sequence.
\dododescriptioncomponent ...entdescriptioncoding
                                                  \s!tex \fi \ifx \currentde...
\@@notemakedescription ...list =,\c!bookmark =,][]
                                                  \xdef \currentnotenumber {...
l.79 ...r in light of Pasquinelli's presentation.}

If I replace \footnote{} with parantheses, the included source compiles fine.

I've had a separate issue where a URL containing %'s seems to gum up
the system (that is, when I pared down the source to isolate the above
peculiarity I removed the URLs with %s and the other error, which
would stop compilation itself if the parantheses had solved the above
issue, disappeared.) Is pandoc producing the proper, or preferred,
\useURL syntax? I'm assuming pandoc aims for mkII over mkIV, but I
thought I read that the interface had not changed.

Sincerely,
John Haltiwanger