The checks for spaces and all that part can be replaced with a call to the 
stringify() function, but besides that it looks good to me.

On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 3:41:33 AM UTC-5, Scott Koga-Browes wrote:
>
> I have created a python filter which replaces user-definable abbreviations 
> (stored in a dictionary file and/or in a pandoc markdown source document's 
> metadata) with their expansions. This is my attempt to replicate the kind 
> of possibilities offered by LaTeX macros like \newcommand{\osh}{oshigami}, 
> i.e. write '\osh', get 'oshigami' when the document is processed. In the 
> past I've found this very useful for maintaining consistency throughout a 
> document, and I missed this when I moved to writing in markdown.
>
> I'm not really a programmer but - based on what I could understand from 
> looking at other python filters out there - I managed to slap together 
> something which seems to do what I want it to. However, I'm not really 
> competent to judge whether it's fit for 'general consumption' and I am 
> hoping there might be people out there willing to spend a few minutes to 
> take a look at it and advise me on what needs to be done to make it 
> 'roadworthy'. 
>
> This is the repository: https://github.com/scokobro/pandoc-abbreviations
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

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