Ah, sorry, I didn't read what you'd written sufficiently carefully.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, 18:48 BPJ, <bpj-J3H7GcXPSITLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> As I said YAML comments aren't preserved when reformatting Markdown source
> with pandoc, which as far as I am concerned is a defect.
>
> Den ons 22 juni 2022 15:58William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
> skrev:
>
>> it also works to use YAML comments, e.g.
>>
>> % cat comment.md
>> ---
>> # this is a comment
>> ---
>>
>> text
>>
>> ---
>> # this is another comment
>> ---
>>
>> % pandoc comment.md
>> <p>text</p>
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 at 14:53, BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if I or someone else has mentioned this before, but I just
>>> realized that there is (another) simple trick to simulate "markdown
>>> comments" as opposed to HTML comments:
>>>
>>> ``````markdown
>>> ```{=comment}
>>> This won't show up in HTML output!
>>> ```
>>>
>>> `This neither`{=comment}
>>>
>>> <!-- But this will be in HTML -->
>>> ``````
>>>
>>> Theoretically this might break if there ever is an output format called
>>> "comment" but I guess that is highly unlikely.
>>>
>>> It will also probably work with your local language's word(s) for
>>> 'comment'; I tried with Swedish "anmärkning" (and the abbreviations
>>> "anmärkn" and "anm") and it seems multi-byte chars in the "format name" is
>>> no problem.
>>>
>>> Also if you don't trust Pandoc to automatically reject raw elements with
>>> a bogus format you can use a simple filter:
>>>
>>> ``````lua
>>> local is_comment = {
>>>   'comment',
>>>   'com',
>>>   'remark',
>>>   'rem',
>>>   'kommentar',
>>>   'komm',
>>>   'anmärkning',
>>>   'anm',
>>>   'athugasemd',
>>>   'aths',
>>> }
>>> -- Turn the list into a set
>>> for i=1,#is_comment do
>>>   is_comment[is_comment[i]] = true
>>>   is_comment[i] = nil
>>> end
>>>
>>> local function raw (r)
>>>   if is_comment[r.format] then
>>>     return {}
>>>   else
>>>     return nil
>>>   end
>>> end
>>>
>>> return {
>>>   {
>>>     RawBlock = raw,
>>>     RawInline = raw,
>>>   }
>>> }
>>> ``````
>>>
>>> Notably this filter can be used to remove such "comments" from Markdown
>>> output, while otherwise they will remain when reformatting Markdown source
>>> with Pandoc, which IMO is an advantage over YAML comments.
>>>
>>> I hope this is useful for others,
>>>
>>> /bpj
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