Re: Possible Pandoc development - Inline footnote output format for markdown

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Dear John,

Thank you very much for making the time to reply.  I quite understand if 
you think the extra complexity is not worthwhile.

best regards,

'ö-Dzin

On Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 17:57:19 UTC+1 John MacFarlane wrote:

> Not all footnotes can be inline -- inline footnotes can't contain 
> block-level formatting.
> That's why we use reference notes in the writer.
>
> In principle it would be possible to add an option that uses inline notes 
> when possible
> (not always), but I'd prefer not to: I don't think the additional 
> complexity is
> worth it in this case.
>
> > On Oct 21, 2023, at 2:13 AM, tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Pandoc can read both Markdown reference footnotes and inline footnotes, 
> but is only able to write reference footnotes when producing a Markdown 
> file.
> > 
> > Is it possible to enable Pandoc to write inline footnotes in Markdown?
> > 
> > Last year i received help in converting reference footnotes to inline 
> footnotes from Christophe Demko, who produced a combination of a Lua filter 
> and sed editor code which enabled me to convert reference footnotes to 
> inline. I'm very grateful to Christophe for this facility.
> > 
> > (See 
> https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/_5-8TRJhhqo/m/NDvoWc-XAQAJ)
> > 
> > I would like to know whether it would be possible for Pandoc to directly 
> support the writing of inline footnotes. Could this be a future development?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > 'ö-Dzin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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