Hi Christoph,

Thank you very much.

I'm working on a book and I cut it down to the smallest file that would reproduce the error.

I've tried this with you new code and it works...!

So the next thing was to try your new code with the entire book - and I get a different error message

Error running filter lua_filter_note_complex.lua:
Inline, list of Inlines, or string expected, got List

I can try the process of chopping the file down to see if I can get the same error with a smaller file. If you're happy to continue looking at this I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm going to be away until Monday. If you have any advice I'll pick it up then.

Thank you again,

'ö-Dzin

 
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 19:43, Christophe Demko <chdemko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
May be you have some complex content in your footnotes.
Try this note.lua file:

function Note(note)
  if #note.content == 1 then
    table.insert(note.content[1].content, 1, pandoc.Str "%%opening%%")
    table.insert(note.content[1].content, pandoc.Str "%%closing%%")
    return note.content[1].content
  end
  return note
end

Le mercredi 19 juillet 2023 à 19:59:23 UTC+2, Christophe Demko a écrit :
Can you post the files which cause an issue ?

Le mercredi 19 juillet 2023 à 18:44:09 UTC+2, 'o-Dzin Tridral a écrit :
Hi Christophe,

I'm sorry to follow up again, but I get an error with my large md file

The filter fails with the error

  attempt to concatenate a nil value (field 'text')

The error doesn't mention where the failure happens or what text is causing the problem.  If you have any advice re how to get more information from pandoc or lua I would very much appreciate it.

I entirely understand if you don't have time to look at this of course.

best regards,

'ö-Dzin

 
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- creating a Buddhist retreat centre in Wales
: https://www.drala-jong.org/ ☸

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 17:19, 'o-Dzin Tridral <tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
Hi Christophe,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I've not used lua filters before.  It took me a while to realise how to make a command line with the input file and output file.

I thought I'd write back and include tis for the benefit of any novices like me.

I've now done this with your script, inserting the '-i' for the input file and using output redirection '>'  for the output file

   pandoc --lua-filter note.lua -t markdown -i <input file> | sed -e 's/%%opening%%/\^\[/g' | sed -e 's/%%closing%%/\]/g' > <output file>

This works on my small example file.

Thank you once again.

'ö-Dzin

 
☸ 
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- creating a Buddhist retreat centre in Wales
: https://www.drala-jong.org/ ☸

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 14:36, Christophe Demko <chd...-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm> wrote:
You can use a lua filter:

$ pandoc --lua-filter note.lua -t markdown | sed -e 's/%%opening%%/\^\[/g' | sed -e 's/%%closing%%/\]/g'

with this note.lua file

function Note(note)
  note.content[1].content[1].text = "%%opening%%" .. note.content[1].content[1].text
  note.content[1].content[#note.content[1].content].text = note.content[1].content[#note.content[1].content].text .. "%%closing%%"
  return note.content[1].content
end
Le dimanche 16 juillet 2023 à 17:35:38 UTC+2, tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org a écrit :
Is it possible to use Pandoc to convert an md file that has reference footnotes to one that has inline footnotes - just by going from md -> md, but failing that via another format.

I have a file containing reference footnotes like this
----
    Example[^1] line of text.

    [^1]: Example footnote
----

I would like to convert them all to inline footnotes like this

----
    Example^[Example footnote] line of text.
----

Thank you for any help

'ö-Dzin

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