Re: Moving footnotes to just after paragraph with the citation

["'William Lupton' via pandoc-discuss" <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>]

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If --reference-location=block turns out not to be sufficient, I don't think
a lua filter will help, but a custom writer could (the writer is
responsible for handling footnotes).

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 12:23, EBkysko <ebkysko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Note there's a caveat to this solution: as the guide mentions, with
> 'block' the notes are placed at the end of the current **top-level** block,
> which might not be the paragraph itself.
>
> Examples:
>
>    - If the paragraph is an item in a list, the note is placed below the
>    list, not the item (and below main list if a nested list).
>    - If the paragraph is within a fenced div, the note is placed after
>    the fenced div.
>    - A corollary to the above: if a filter uses `make_sections`, the
>    notes might end up at end of document after all.
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 9:55:26 PM UTC-5 Lyndon Drake wrote:
>
>> Brilliant @EBkysko — that works exactly as I'd hoped. Thank you!
>>
>> On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 19:11:24 UTC-6 EBkysko wrote:
>>
>>> try (with markdown output
>>> <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers>)
>>>
>>> ```
>>> --reference-location=block
>>> ```
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:23:57 PM UTC-5 Gwern Branwen wrote:
>>>
>>>> This seems possibly tricky? I don't know what the Lua filters can or
>>>> cannot do, but I'm not sure how one could solve this using just the Haskell
>>>> API... Pandoc was not designed as a source-2-source processor so it doesn't
>>>> make much effort to support Markdown-to-Markdown passes - like the obvious
>>>> roundtrip will potentially change your Markdown formatting to a
>>>> semantically-equivalent but entirely different-looking Markdown doc.
>>>> (Macfarlane has said repeatedly that this will not be changed.)
>>>>
>>>> In your case, footnotes throw away the positioning information.
>>>> Consider the 3 possibilities:
>>>>
>>>>     Foo[^foo].
>>>>
>>>>     Foo bar^[Bar.]
>>>>
>>>>     Foo baz[^baz]
>>>>
>>>>     [^baz]: Baz.
>>>>
>>>>     [^foo]: foo.
>>>>
>>>> This parses into:
>>>>
>>>> [ Para
>>>>     [ Str "Foo" , Note [ Para [ Str "foo." ] ] , Str "." ]
>>>> , Para
>>>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>>>     , Space
>>>>     , Str "bar"
>>>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Bar." ] ]
>>>>     ]
>>>> , Para
>>>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>>>     , Space
>>>>     , Str "baz"
>>>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Baz." ] ]
>>>>     ]
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>>> So you can't know 'where' a footnote body was put, whether at the end
>>>> of the doc or elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> Further, Pandoc will write out the Markdown according to its own
>>>> conventions, which go opposite of what you want, by putting *all* footnote
>>>> bodies at the end, regardless of where they were or whether they could be
>>>> inline footnotes, and the Markdown writer probably takes no options which
>>>> would change that:
>>>>
>>>> Foo[^1].
>>>>
>>>> Foo bar[^2]
>>>>
>>>> Foo baz[^3]
>>>>
>>>> [^1]: foo.
>>>>
>>>> [^2]: Bar.
>>>>
>>>> [^3]: Baz.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> gwern
>>>> https://gwern.net <https://www.gwern.net>
>>>>
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