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@berkeley.edu> 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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