Belatedly coming back to say thank you. I was already into an attempt to script the change when I saw your message. My method worked, sort of, but added its own problems. Next time I'll try your way. Thanks again, 'ö-Dzin On Friday, 11 June 2021 at 12:19:49 UTC+1 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote: > If you split the file into distinct files per chapter you can also invoke > pandoc with the –file-scope switch, see > https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--file-scope. (So, no need for sed > and cat). > > Best, > > Denis > > > > > > *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org *Im > Auftrag von *tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 11. Juni 2021 05:54 > *An:* pandoc-discuss > *Betreff:* Dealing with non-unique footnote numbers in markdown > > > > I have a markdown file where the footnote numbers restart for every > chapter giving me non-unique footnote numbers and therefore warnings when > processing MD->EPUB > > > > I would like to know whether anyone has a simple method of renumbering the > footnotes so that they are unique. > > > > I'm using Ubuntu, and what I've done so far is to use 'csplit' to break > the file into chapters, then 'sed' to find and prefix each footnote and > 'cat' to append the whole thing back together again. > > > > Does anyone know of a simpler method for renumbering non-unique footnote > numbers? > > > > Many thanks for any help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/e2f77b9d-ca57-47eb-9b29-111501019059n%40googlegroups.com > > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c6135bd3-6cae-4797-998c-7c26a6450341n%40googlegroups.com.