Re: readMarkdown Ignoring Links (in filter)

[Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This is the limitation of the approach I suggested. The parsing
happens in a completely separate environment to that of the original
document.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Ranjit Jhala <rjhala-fWt/sZ2FBdz2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yes, when I try [wiki](foo) then I get an href to "foo.pdf" which is not
> what I want.
>
> That is, "[wiki](foo)" is parsed nicely but gets rendered to the latex as
> "\href{foo}{wiki}", while instead
> I want it to get rendered to (the equivalent of "wiki \cite{@foo}").
>
> Instead, what I want is to have
>
>   "this is [wiki][foo]"
>
> together with
>
>   "[foo]: http://www.foo.com"
>
> (elsewhere in the document) to be converted to a link to www.foo.com.
>
> (Which works just fine in the main document, but not the bits that are
> going through my filter...
>
>
> On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 11:37:27 AM UTC-8, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure you don't mean `[wiki](foo)`?
>>
>> `[wiki][foo]` will only be a Markdown link if the reference `foo` is
>> defined elsewhere in the document.
>>
>> +++ Ranjit Jhala [Jan 17 15 06:03 ]:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I am writing  a small filter for converting from markdown to latex, and
>> >getting the odd behavior, reproduced below
>> >via GHCi:
>> >
>> >> Prelude Text.Pandoc.JSON Text.Pandoc> readMarkdown  def "this is
>> >[wiki][foo]"
>> >
>> >Pandoc (Meta {unMeta = fromList []}) [Para [Str "this",Space,Str
>> > "is",Space,
>> >Str "[wiki][foo]"]]
>> >
>> >
>> >Namely, the citation `[wiki][foo]` is read as a String, and hence when
>> >converted
>> >to LaTeX rendered the wrong way (i.e. without the HREF).
>> >
>> >I suspect I have the wrong `ReaderOptions` in `def`  -- but I don't know
>> >which flags to add.
>> >
>> >I am writing this filter following the suggestion from here:
>> >
>> >  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pandoc-discuss/Kd1L4Rg0dx0/NZvgcMcz9NQJ
>> >
>> > the above only happens inside the filtered blocks -- citations of the
>> >above form work just fine when inside the "regular"
>> > unfiltered document.
>> >
>> >Any suggestions would be most welcome!
>> >
>> >Ranjit.
>> >
>> >
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