Sorry, I haven’t been following from the beginning. Can you provide a complete example. What’s your input ? What’s the desired output ? Von: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Im Auftrag von paulschillinger93-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2022 01:03 An: pandoc-discuss Betreff: Re: How do I replace a string in all text that pandoc converts, i.e. how do I do this with a filter? I've narrowed it down! The issue isn't the characters but that they're technically "part" of the word. How do I replace PART of a word? Thanks! On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:52:05 a.m. UTC+1 - wrote: Barring that, can't I use something like "> = string.gsub("Hello banana", "banana", "Lua user")", if so how would I do that? I got that example from http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:51:09 a.m. UTC+1 - wrote: I just tried that, thanks! That works :) But this doesn't appear to work for characters, like "==" which was the original goal. Am I missing some sort of escape characters? On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:49:46 a.m. UTC+1 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote: You are matching against the whole paragraph (para). So, when the first element in your paragraph matches your search string, you'll replace the whole paragraph with the return value of your function. (Which is a block element, not an inline element.) Use the example from here instead: https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#macro-substitution ________________________________________ Von: pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org

> im Auftrag von paulschi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2022 00:32:23 An: pandoc-discuss Betreff: Re: How do I replace a string in all text that pandoc converts, i.e. how do I do this with a filter? YES! that works! But can you tell me why it replaces the whole line? Can't I do this in running text? Thanks! return { { Para = function (elem) if elem.content[1].text == "{{helloworld}}" then return pandoc.RawBlock('latex','abc') else return elem end end, } } On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:09:13 a.m. UTC+1 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote: Just your example filter: ```lua return { { Para = function (elem) if elem.content[1].text == "{{helloworld}}" then return pandoc.RawBlock('html','

abc

') else return elem end end, } } ``` The problematic line is this: return pandoc.RawBlock('html','

abc

') This adds a raw block that will only come in to effect when your output format is html. If your target ist latex, you’ll need something like this: return pandoc.RawBlock('latex','\\whatever{abc}') ```cmd pandoc test.md -L filter.lua -t latex asf \whatever{abc} asf ``` Von: pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org

> Im Auftrag von paulschi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2022 00:04 An: pandoc-discuss > Betreff: Re: How do I replace a string in all text that pandoc converts, i.e. how do I do this with a filter? No, my intended output is a PDF file. Does that change anything? Could you tell me what exactly you put in filter.lua? Thanks! On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 11:56:39 p.m. UTC+1 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote: What exactly are you doing? Your output format is html? I’ve just tested this and it seems to work. ```cmd C:\Users\denis\Downloads\filter>cat test.md asf {{helloworld}} asf C:\Users\denis\Downloads\filter>pandoc test.md

asf

C:\Users\denis\Downloads\filter>pandoc test.md -L filter.lua

asf

abc

asf

``` Von: pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org

> Im Auftrag von paulschi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Gesendet: Montag, 5. Dezember 2022 18:58 An: pandoc-discuss > Betreff: Re: How do I replace a string in all text that pandoc converts, i.e. how do I do this with a filter? I've tried this: return { { Para = function (elem) if elem.content[1].text == "{{helloworld}}" then return pandoc.RawBlock('html','

abc

') else return elem end end, } } but that only gets rid of {{helloworld}}, it doesn't replace it with anything. Sadly this doens't work for "==", i.e. those don't disappear. On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 6:49:08 p.m. UTC+1 - wrote: I've been trying to replace markdown/Obsidian highlights "==" either with something that LaTeX can use e.g. \hl or just delete it/replace it with nothing, but I can't figure out how to do this. I've tried this: function Str (str) str.text = string.upper(str.text) return str end But I can't even figure out where I'm meant to put my own text? How do I rpelace == with " "? Thanks! -- 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-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/3ae58adb-8789-4398-8ab0-fe1e6928e292n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/e9cb34ca-b760-4ef6-9432-91d37f5e45c5n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/7cabb17e-9a2b-4251-bd95-c5415140c9adn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/6d25bb08-224d-4f01-8eba-3f1c55d19e83n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/3db81523c80944f3a81a18f25166124f%40unibe.ch.