Re: pandoc 2.19 "flattens" text in table of contents, no more <span> — workaround?

[Gwern Branwen <gwern-v26ZT+9V8bxeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>]

Spans were removed by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8020

Adding the triangle to the header text is working as it should. (It's
a strange use of <span>s which was not documented nor was it intended,
and you shouldn't've been relying on it.) There would seem to be many
more natural and less error-prone ways to decorate headers with a "▴".
Most obviously, why don't you use a CSS ::after pseudo-element, when
this sort of link annotation is their most common use and avoids
apparent problems with your original approach? (For example, if you
are injecting the triangle as a text literal, isn't it going to
pollute copy-paste?) Or if that doesn't work for something, why not
just wrap the triangle in a real span with a meaningful class, and
then just hide it in the ToC like '#toc span.return-marker { display:
none; }', something like that?

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gwern

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