Re: Moving footnotes to just after paragraph with the citation

[Lyndon Drake <isenguard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Brilliant @EBkysko — that works exactly as I'd hoped. Thank you!

On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 19:11:24 UTC-6 EBkysko wrote:

> try (with markdown output 
> <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers>)
>
> ```
> --reference-location=block
> ``` 
>
> On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:23:57 PM UTC-5 Gwern Branwen wrote:
>
>> This seems possibly tricky? I don't know what the Lua filters can or 
>> cannot do, but I'm not sure how one could solve this using just the Haskell 
>> API... Pandoc was not designed as a source-2-source processor so it doesn't 
>> make much effort to support Markdown-to-Markdown passes - like the obvious 
>> roundtrip will potentially change your Markdown formatting to a 
>> semantically-equivalent but entirely different-looking Markdown doc. 
>> (Macfarlane has said repeatedly that this will not be changed.)
>>
>> In your case, footnotes throw away the positioning information.
>> Consider the 3 possibilities:
>>
>>     Foo[^foo].
>>
>>     Foo bar^[Bar.]
>>
>>     Foo baz[^baz]
>>
>>     [^baz]: Baz.
>>  
>>     [^foo]: foo.
>>
>> This parses into:
>>
>> [ Para
>>     [ Str "Foo" , Note [ Para [ Str "foo." ] ] , Str "." ]
>> , Para
>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>     , Space
>>     , Str "bar"
>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Bar." ] ]
>>     ]
>> , Para
>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>     , Space
>>     , Str "baz"
>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Baz." ] ]
>>     ]
>> ]
>>
>> So you can't know 'where' a footnote body was put, whether at the end of 
>> the doc or elsewhere.
>>
>> Further, Pandoc will write out the Markdown according to its own 
>> conventions, which go opposite of what you want, by putting *all* footnote 
>> bodies at the end, regardless of where they were or whether they could be 
>> inline footnotes, and the Markdown writer probably takes no options which 
>> would change that:
>>
>> Foo[^1].
>>
>> Foo bar[^2]
>>
>> Foo baz[^3]
>>
>> [^1]: foo.
>>
>> [^2]: Bar.
>>
>> [^3]: Baz.
>>
>> -- 
>> gwern
>> https://gwern.net <https://www.gwern.net>
>>
>

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