Hi John, thank you for the response!  Soon after making the post, I
realized that there was more to this than I realized and deleted the
question but I imagine that it had already landed in your mailbox.

The problem seems to be that my code,  which processes pandoc output a bit,
turns empty anchors for line numbers into self closing anchor tags.  These
self closing tags seem to break the browser, which include the whole code
line as the anchor text.  I will look into more closely why and post an
update.  I am a bit puzzled at the moment.


On Fri, May 8, 2020, 12:45 AM John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> You need to provide us with more to go on.
> By itself this input wouldn't produce highlighted code at all
> (no language is specified).
>
> Try this markdown sample:
>
> ~~~~~~
> One:
>
> ``` {.haskell .numberLines}
> let x = tail y in
>     x <> y
> ```
>
> Two:
>
> ``` {.haskell .numberLines}
> x >>= y >>= z
> ```
> ~~~~~~
>
> This works fine. Line numbers are generated. The line numbers are
> links to the line (very useful!).  The two snippets generate separate
> ids with links to separat elines.
>
> Without the 'numberLines' class you don't get the line numbers,
> and the lines are NOT links to themselves.
>
> When converting from LaTeX/listings, you'll need to add the
> numbers=left option to get numbering.
>
> In your output
>
> <span id="cb2-4"><a href="#cb2-4"></a><span class="dv">2</span> (<span
> class="dt">int</span>)  </span>
>
> the line is not a link to itself (tested on browser just to make
> sure); there is an <a> element but its content is empty since
> you don't have a line number.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Umut Acar <umutacar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > At some point after pandoc version 2.7.2, pandoc started translating
> code
> > blocks to html from LaTeX sources somewhat differently.
> >
> > For example,  the code block
> >
> > ```
> > \begin{lstlisting}
> > ...
> > 2 (int)
> > \end{lstlisting}
> > ```
> > used to produce the following html
> > ```
> > <a class="sourceLine" id="cb2-4" title="4"><span class="dv">2</span>
> (<span
> > class="dt">int</span>)
> > ```
> > It now produces the following
> > ```
> > <span id="cb2-4"><a href="#cb2-4"></a><span class="dv">2</span> (<span
> > class="dt">int</span>)  </span>
> > ```
> >
> > On a browser,  the latter renders the code "int" as a html link to
> itself;
> > the code line is rendered as a link (to itself).
> >
> > Also, because the code anchor id's such as `cb2-4` are not unique
> (multiple
> > code blocks generate the same id's), clicking on a code line sends the
> > browser to the first instance of that id, usually somewhere up the page.
> >
> > The new translation is also dropping the code line numbers.
> >
> > Any thoughts about what might be going on and suggestions about how this
> > could be fixed?   I would be happy with the prior behavior code lines
> were
> > not assigned anchor tags and were numbered serially.
> >
> >
> >
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