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 > ) > > ``` > --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 >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/3b95f72e-34ba-486b-9b5d-2b0d01a49088n%40googlegroups.com.