From: EBkysko <ebkysko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Moving footnotes to just after paragraph with the citation
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:11:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa407627-870e-474e-856e-49559c74d46cn@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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try (with markdown output
<https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers>)
```
--reference-location=block
```
On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:23:57 PM UTC-5 Gwern Branwen wrote:
> This seems possibly tricky? I don't know what the Lua filters can or
> cannot do, but I'm not sure how one could solve this using just the Haskell
> API... Pandoc was not designed as a source-2-source processor so it doesn't
> make much effort to support Markdown-to-Markdown passes - like the obvious
> roundtrip will potentially change your Markdown formatting to a
> semantically-equivalent but entirely different-looking Markdown doc.
> (Macfarlane has said repeatedly that this will not be changed.)
>
> In your case, footnotes throw away the positioning information.
> Consider the 3 possibilities:
>
> Foo[^foo].
>
> Foo bar^[Bar.]
>
> Foo baz[^baz]
>
> [^baz]: Baz.
>
> [^foo]: foo.
>
> This parses into:
>
> [ Para
> [ Str "Foo" , Note [ Para [ Str "foo." ] ] , Str "." ]
> , Para
> [ Str "Foo"
> , Space
> , Str "bar"
> , Note [ Para [ Str "Bar." ] ]
> ]
> , Para
> [ Str "Foo"
> , Space
> , Str "baz"
> , Note [ Para [ Str "Baz." ] ]
> ]
> ]
>
> So you can't know 'where' a footnote body was put, whether at the end of
> the doc or elsewhere.
>
> Further, Pandoc will write out the Markdown according to its own
> conventions, which go opposite of what you want, by putting *all* footnote
> bodies at the end, regardless of where they were or whether they could be
> inline footnotes, and the Markdown writer probably takes no options which
> would change that:
>
> Foo[^1].
>
> Foo bar[^2]
>
> Foo baz[^3]
>
> [^1]: foo.
>
> [^2]: Bar.
>
> [^3]: Baz.
>
> --
> gwern
> https://gwern.net <https://www.gwern.net>
>
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2023-11-21 20:24 Lyndon Drake
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2023-11-21 21:23 ` Gwern Branwen
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2023-11-22 1:11 ` EBkysko [this message]
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2023-11-22 2:55 ` Lyndon Drake
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2023-11-22 12:23 ` EBkysko
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2023-11-22 12:54 ` 'William Lupton' via pandoc-discuss
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2023-11-23 16:21 ` Lyndon Drake
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