A "reference-location" argument for HTML output?

A "reference-location" argument for HTML output?

[Hugo Roy]

Hello,

I would like to suggest an idea --- maybe some of you have a solution 
for this.

Currently the option "--reference-location = block|section|document" 
allows: to "Specify whether footnotes (and references, if 
reference-links is set) are placed at the end of the current (top-level) 
block, the current section, or the document. The default is document. 
Currently only affects the markdown writer."

I think it would be interesting to have this also for HTML output so 
that, for instance, one is able to style footnotes to appear in relation 
to the relevant block/section. This would be an especially useful 
improvement because, unlike page-focused medium like Docx or LaTeX, 
footnotes at the end of the HTML document often end up being way too far 
from the relevant context.

Have anyone here tried this?

Thanks

Hugo

Re: A "reference-location" argument for HTML output?

[Albert Krewinkel]

Hugo Roy writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to suggest an idea --- maybe some of you have a solution for this.
>
> Currently the option "--reference-location = block|section|document" allows: to
> "Specify whether footnotes (and references, if reference-links is set) are
> placed at the end of the current (top-level) block, the current section, or the
> document. The default is document. Currently only affects the markdown writer."
>
> I think it would be interesting to have this also for HTML output so that, for
> instance, one is able to style footnotes to appear in relation to the relevant
> block/section. This would be an especially useful improvement because, unlike
> page-focused medium like Docx or LaTeX, footnotes at the end of the HTML
> document often end up being way too far from the relevant context.
>
> Have anyone here tried this?

There is the "section-refs" Lua filter, which should be close to
what you need:
https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/tree/master/section-refs

--
Albert

Re: A "reference-location" argument for HTML output?

[Hugo Roy]

Hi Albert,

Thanks for the hint, I will have a look and try to make it work :)

Best,
Hugo