We could do this by passing the full content to the strikeout constructor. We'd remove, then re-add the checkbox later: plain.content:remove(2) -- remove space plain.content:remove(1) -- remove checkbox plain.content = done_marker .. pandoc.Strikeout(plain.content) Am 24. Dezember 2022 09:37:58 MEZ schrieb "balaj...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" : >Thanks for the pointers Albert! It did help me get started. Unfortunately >when I started looping through the Plain object, I realized that the >individual strings were represented as separate elements so there did not >seem to be an easy way to apply a strikethrough formatting for the entire >sentence. The best I would be able to do was apply the strikethrough >word-by-word but with that approach, the final HTML did not look very >pleasing. > >In the end, I wound up writing a small Python script that would modify a >file with the pandoc native format directly (outside of pandoc) and then >feed the modified native format file back into pandoc. After a couple of >false starts with the regex and then the native output becoming invalid, >I've got it working fairly well for my purposes. > >On Thursday, 22 December 2022 at 20:21:19 UTC+8 Albert Krewinkel wrote: > >> "balaj...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" writes: >> >> > The specific scenario I'm looking at is a Markdown file such as this: >> > >> > ### Todo >> > - [ ] Foo >> > - [X] Quux Qux >> >> This is an interesting case because it is more complex than it seems. >> The reason is pandoc's `task_list` extension that causes pandoc to >> handle these checkboxes specially, converting them to [Str "☐", Space] >> and [Str "☒", Space]. So we'll have to match on that in our filter. >> >> A good approach would be to write a filter for Plain, like so: >> >> ``` lua >> function Plain (plain) >> -- modify the object here >> return plain >> end >> ``` >> >> Pandoc will then do all necessary document traversals automatically, >> the function gets applied to all `Plain` elements in the document. >> >> To check for the prefix, we'd do something like >> >> ``` lua >> local done_marker = pandoc.List{pandoc.Str '☒', pandoc.Space()} >> local prefix = pandoc.List{plain.content[1], plain.content[2]} >> if prefix == done_marker then >> -- modify content >> end >> ``` >> >> I hope that's enough to get you started. Happy hacking! >> >> >> -- >> Albert Krewinkel >> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124 >> > >-- >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/8f0e8d81-7f0b-49a7-b9b5-d78b19a0b1ban%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/C927BB76-A05B-48E2-8277-0DED656D13CA%40zeitkraut.de.