Re: help filtering languages

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>]

On 3/13/23 20:43, Bastien DUMONT wrote:
> {:de} will be parsed as a string, not as an attribute list.
> Attributes are of the form key=value. In this case, you can write
> (-f commonmark+attributes):
>
> _Deutsch_{lang=de}
>
> What you propose is a syntax extension

Many thanks for your reply, Bastien.

I know there is a way to full attribute specification, since the
original proposal is almost a decade old
(https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/895 [which was superseded by
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3451]).

> and it would be quite difficult to write a filter taking into
> account multiple attributes and cases where the {...} string is
> immediately followed by other characters.

Well, I see what I was missing here.

> Maybe a custom reader would be better suited.

I wouldn’t mind to add this to (a custom version of) djot. But I clearly
lack the knowledge to do that.

> But it would be easier to stick to existing conventions!

I’m used to the convention (although I‘d rather avoid it, since it tend
to mix languages a lot), but when explaining CommonMark/Markdown to
newcomers, this is one important exception to lightweight markup.

And believe me, it is not easy to explain the key="value" attribute
syntax (it doesn’t make it easier to ignore the quotes) to people with
practically no computer background at all. Because this goes on top of a
bunch of new things for them (which would make anyone explode).

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo

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