Cross references - AsciiDoc to DocBook to Pandoc to Word

Cross references - AsciiDoc to DocBook to Pandoc to Word

[Peter Conrad]

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I'm impressed to discover that cross-references survive the convoluted 
journey from AsciiDoc to Word. I'm going to Word because it makes it very 
easy to format a PDF just the way I want. But I can't figure out how to do 
what I want, which is to get a cross-reference in the format:

See "Section name" on page ##.

In Word, this is typically two references (one for the section name, one 
for the page number). Is there a way to do this in AsciiDoc that Pandoc 
will understand?

Peter


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Re: Cross references - AsciiDoc to DocBook to Pandoc to Word

[Joseph Reagle]

On 11/24/20 1:15 PM, Peter Conrad wrote:
> See "Section name" on page ##.
> 
> In Word, this is typically two references (one for the section name, one for the page number). Is there a way to do this in AsciiDoc that Pandoc will understand?

Not natively in markdown or AsciiDoc as the page number is going to change given how you format/paginate it in Word. I don't know if you could insert/embed Word syntax into markdown/AsciiDoc...

Re: Cross references - AsciiDoc to DocBook to Pandoc to Word

[stymied-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w]

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That makes sense. But it seems like something DocBook should be able to do,
have a reference that gets eventually rendered to a page number. And
therefore something AsciiDoc should be able to tell DocBook to do.

Ah well, if not then not!



On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:23 AM Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 11/24/20 1:15 PM, Peter Conrad wrote:
> > See "Section name" on page ##.
> >
> > In Word, this is typically two references (one for the section name, one
> for the page number). Is there a way to do this in AsciiDoc that Pandoc
> will understand?
>
> Not natively in markdown or AsciiDoc as the page number is going to change
> given how you format/paginate it in Word. I don't know if you could
> insert/embed Word syntax into markdown/AsciiDoc...
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Re: Cross references - AsciiDoc to DocBook to Pandoc to Word

[Joseph Reagle]

On 11/24/20 1:58 PM, stymied-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> That makes sense. But it seems like something DocBook should be able to do, have a reference that gets eventually rendered to a page number. And therefore something AsciiDoc should be able to tell DocBook to do.

A couple of years ago, we had a simpler discussion on how to force page breaks in the resulting Word. A page break within the XML wrapped up in the docx file is `<w:p><w:r><w:br w:type=\"page\"/></w:r></w:p>`.  This is much simpler than a page reference -- and I have no idea how Word represents those -- but if you know you might be able to effect the same thing by way of a filter and/or the docx template.

https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/FzLrhk0vVbU

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