I for one agree about that; one of the reasons that I don't like LaTeX is that it forces me to use English-based markup with non-English text. Perhaps if textual labels can't be avoided they can be configurable, like the actually inserted texts need to be configurable with templates, something like

``````yaml

labels: # Icelandic

sec: kafli

fig: mynd

tab: tafla

``````

(These are the actual Icelandic words for 'section, 'figure, 'table'. They are so short that it makes little sense to truncate them.)

I guess templates should better use the same library as Pandoc's document template. pandoc-crossref's coopting of math syntax is an expedient which wouldn't be needed anymore.

FWIW my list-table filter for example has the same problem, but for now I have abstained from making the div attributes it looks for configurable. It would not be too complicated though:

``````yaml

# Swedish

lol2table_class: lista-till-tabell

table2lol_class: tabell-till-lista

list_table_align: justering

list_table_width: bredd

``````

Den tors 28 jan. 2021 19:22John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> skrev:

The thing I've always resisted about pandoc-crossref syntax is
the use of English-derived keywords for labels. Perhaps there's
not a good way to avoid that, but it would be something I'd want
to look inot.

BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I guess that some of the pandoc-crossrefs code might be useful. At least I
> hope that any built-in reference handling will stay as close to
> pandoc-crossrefs's syntax and interface as possible so that old files
> written with pandoc-crossrefs in mind will work with as little change as
> possible (hopefully none.)

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