Escaping (was: Re: Missing bibliography)

[Melroch <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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JGM wrote:
Perhaps pandoc should not allow reference link definitions
that start with `@`, since these conflict with citations?
Anyone have thoughts about this?  Someone should probably
put an issue on the bug tracker for this.
______________

That seems reasonable but please note that anything which contains literal
square brackets or asterisks has to be escaped anyway, so more or less
escaping will be required for many of us. Admittedly historical linguistics
and comparative philology (my onetime field, which I still interact with to
some extent) use more literal square brackets and asterisks than most, but
maybe the most reasonable solution would be section in the manual which
lists common cases where escaping is required.

Den 6 aug 2017 18:03 skrev "John MacFarlane" <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:

Thanks (and apologies if I missed the files before).

Simple repro here:

```
hi[^fn3]

[^fn3]: [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius, ut
appareat supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam."
```

This yields an empty footnote.  Why?  Because the footnote
contains:

```
[@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius, ut appareat
supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam."
```

which pandoc is parsing as a reference link definition!

Perhaps pandoc should not allow reference link definitions
that start with `@`, since these conflict with citations?
Anyone have thoughts about this?  Someone should probably
put an issue on the bug tracker for this.

In the mean time, a workaround is to backslash-escape the
colon:

   [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]\: "competentius...



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