Dear all,

I have a use case where I would like to be able to add my own element to the pandoc AST such that I can use it in a panflute filter. This would be an inline element emulating LaTeX’s \gls{term} command from the glossaries.sty package.

I envision the markdown to look something like this:

mentioning a gls:term from the glossary.

or something like this:

mentioning a gls(term) from the glossary

So the syntax would be very similar to LaTeX, but a bit more lightweight.

Is there a way to do this in pandoc? Inheriting from Block or Inline and setting up custom syntax such that it can be processed by a Lua or Python filter?

Thanks for your consideration.

Regards,

Amine