Re: Output-Format Plain removes Markdown-Hyperlinks []()

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Here with pandoc 2.16.2 `[TEXT](URL)` is automatically turned into `TEXT 
<URL>` in plain output, being smart enough to do the right thing if the 
URL appears in the link text or if it was `<URL>` already.

Anyway attached is a Lua filter which I use to get the same effect in 
other output formats.  Unless you are running a very old version of 
pandoc it should do what you want unless pandoc does it already.

On 2022-01-14 12:20, Peter Mueller wrote:
> Hello together.
> 
> I'm working on a project where we use one input markdown file to create
> HTML but also TXT files.
> The problem I have is with markdown hyperlinks in the form of []().
> 
> While for the output format html they are kept:
> *$ echo "prefix [this is a link](www.google.de) suffix" | pandoc -f
> markdown -t html*
> *<p>prefix <a href="www.google.de">this is a link</a> suffix</p>*
> 
> the url is completely removed for plain output:
> *$ echo "prefix [this is a link](www.google.de) suffix" | pandoc -f
> markdown -t plain*
> *prefix this is a link suffix*
> 
> Is there a way/plugin to keep the url within the plain output?
> (e.g.  by keeping the markdown  [this is a link](www.google.de) as it is,
> but handling all other markdown as usual?)
> 
> Thank you
> Peter
>