Re: converting links to footnotes... including page number in footnote??

["'Håkon Wium Lie' via pandoc-discuss" <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>]

If you use Prince as the PDF generator, you can produce quite advanced footnotes:

  https://css4.pub/2022/footnotes/

Also, Prince supports sidenotes, aiming for the holy grail of Tufte-like layout:

  https://css4.pub
  https://css4.pub/2022/sidenotes/

To add the page number of the linked-to page (which was the original
question), Prince supports the "target-counter" feature in CSS.

  https://www.princexml.com/doc/gen-content/

This is often used to create ToCs:

  https://css4.pub/2022/toc/

(Prince is a commercial product, but free for non-commercial use. I work for the company.)

Håkon Wium Lie     haakon-EO96REbE7qRuMpJDpNschA@public.gmane.org    www.wiumlie.no/en 

 > Thanks! Yeah injecting html in the intermediary document doesn't sound very 
 > promising either (again, because the pages have to be built first before 
 > footnotes updated with page #s) so maybe I'll abandon weasyprint in this 
 > case, if this would be easy to do with a *Tex pdf engine. In that case... 
 > how would one go about this? Would a lua filter be more capable with a 
 > different pdf engine or would a different mechanism be used?
 > 
 > On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 5:28:31 AM UTC-5 Bastien Dumont wrote:
 > 
 > > The problem is that Pandoc does not produce the PDF document: it produces 
 > > the intermediary HTML document that is processed by weasyprint to produce 
 > > the PDF. So you cannot get page numbers in a Lua filter.
 > >
 > > However, you can inject raw HTML code in the intermediary file (or in your 
 > > CSS) that will make weasyprint print the page numbers. The question is 
 > > whether such HTML code exists. It certainly would be possible to do this if 
 > > you converted to PDF via LaTeX, ConTeXt or groff, but I don't know if it is 
 > > possible via weasyprint.
 > >
 > > Le Friday 25 November 2022 à 04:33:05PM, user account a écrit :
 > > > Using pandoc with weasyprint pdf engine to turn the markdown files from 
 > > a blog
 > > > (static site generator does the html conversion) into a pdf for print.
 > > > 
 > > > Would it be possible, perhaps with a custom lua filter or some other 
 > > mechanism,
 > > > to add the page number of the linked-to page? The page numbers won't be 
 > > known
 > > > until pandoc has already created the document, and I don't know where in 
 > > 'the
 > > > pipeline' the lua filter intervenes compared to when the pages exist...? 
 > > And
 > > > If the pages exist with their numbers earlier enough, is there an object 
 > > or
 > > > something from which lua can get the page number?
 > > > 
 > > > I haven't found anything about page numbers in https://pandoc.org/
 > > > lua-filters.html#module-pandoc.utils ...am I looking in the wrong place? 
 > > Can
 > > > anyone tell me anything about this?
 > > > 
 > > > It's an intimidating rabbit hole for me, particularly because I see no 
 > > mention
 > > > of "page number" there in the docs, which makes it seem kinda hopeless
 > > > actually. But maybe one of you know the way and could point me in that
 > > > direction?
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