Re: Front, main, and back matter?

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

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I hadn't thought about doing it that way, but it does make sense. My 
template is set up to have the \frontmatter and similar commands in it, and 
I'd been thinking I would do a filter to shift the appropriate sections up 
above the \mainmatter command. But I hadn't realised that the LaTeX would 
be left out of other formats. That means I can just put all the LaTeX 
commands I need, including those currently in the template file, in the MD 
file (actually in my Scrivener file, but that's not actually that 
relevant), and then when I convert to LaTeX it'll end up the way I want it.

On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 23:12:24 UTC+13 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote:

> Addendum:
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> If you choose to just enter the LaTeX commands directly to your markdown 
> sources, pandoc’s internal representation will look like this :
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> Source :
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> ```
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> *Hello* world!
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> \frontmatter
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> Hi again
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> ```
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> Output (native):
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> ```
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> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "Hello" ] , Space , Str "world!" ]
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> , RawBlock (Format "tex") "\\frontmatter"
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> , Para [ Str "Hi" , Space , Str "again" ]
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> ]
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> ```
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> So you could even just use the LaTeX commands directly, and use a filter 
> to transform the RawBlocks with content \\frontmatter to something else 
> when your target is not LaTeX.
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> Best,
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> Denis
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> *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> *Im 
> Auftrag von *denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2023 11:04
> *An:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
> *Cc:* isen...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
> *Betreff:* AW: Front, main, and back matter?
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> Hi,
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> if your main/only target is LaTeX, you should be able to just add these 
> command directly to your markdown sources. Pandoc will pass those through 
> as is when the output is LaTeX, and ignore those for other output formats.
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> When you want a more robust solution filters are indeed the way to go. 
> Something as simple as this might already work :
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> function Str (elem)
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>   if elem.text == "{{frontmatter}}" then 
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>     if FORMAT:match 'latex' then
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>       return pandoc.RawBlock('latex','\\fontmatter')
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>     end
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>   end
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> end
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> You can add more instructions for other output formats as needed.
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> Best,
>
> Denis
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>  
>
> *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> *Im 
> Auftrag von *Lyndon Drake
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 26. Dezember 2022 21:13
> *An:* pandoc-discuss <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
> *Betreff:* Front, main, and back matter?
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> Hi,
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> Is there any common approach to dealing with front matter, main matter, 
> and back matter? In general front matter is often unnumbered or under a 
> different page numbering scheme (i, ii, iii, …) and includes such things as 
> contents, lists of tables and figures, abbreviations, abstract, preface, 
> and so forth. Main matter then is the body of the work, typically in 
> chapters, and then the back matter is such things as appendices, indices, 
> and bibliographies. In LaTeX these are indicated by the `\frontmatter`, 
> `\mainmatter`, and `\backmatter` commands, but it is possible to do similar 
> things in other formats albeit with less semantic content.
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> At the moment, after producing my LaTeX file, I manually move the 
> `\frontmatter` command to the correct place. I imagine that I might be able 
> to write a filter to do the same thing but I'm not sure how to start.
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> Given that this is no doubt a common issue for the production of books, 
> I'm also wondering if there might be a good way to approach the issue so 
> that (in time) there can be a canonical approach to this?
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> (There might be similar things around 'Part's of books, and to things such 
> as variations in citation formatting per-chapter.)
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> Best,
>
> Lyndon
>
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