Re: Reference link support in AST (for Quarto's Visual Editor)?

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This is all true, yes.  Pandoc was not really designed as a reformatter.  commonmark-hs could be the basis for a more flexible reformatting tool.

Could we change the AST so it explicitly represents reference links as such?  In theory, yes.  But this would be quite a big change, and potentially very disruptive. Also it must be remembered that most of the formats pandoc supports don't have the notion of a "reference link."

> On Feb 8, 2023, at 7:50 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I've been looking forward to Quarto's stand-alone Visual Editor as a pandoc-friendly multi-line table supporting editor. However, it rewrites my carefully specified reference links and they wrote:
> 
>> We currently aren't able to support reference links because when Pandoc parses the page they are all resolved into "real" links (i.e. the Pandoc AST doesn't have the concept of a reference link, and since our editor is really editing the AST not the markdown text, there isn't any way for us to read or write them).
> 
> https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues/42
> 
> Has any thought been given to this?
> 
> —Joseph
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