Re: converting links to footnotes... including page number in footnote??

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oh a 'filters' subdir! Thanks. So now the pdf gets created w/o error, but 
there are not footnotes.

neither of these:
    pandoc -L links-with-page-number.lua -o test.pdf test.html
    pandoc -V links-as-notes -L links-with-page-number.lua -o test.pdf 
test.html
...creates pdf w/ footnotes, so there's no footnote to contain the page 
number of the linked-to page.

Something undesireable does happen though... I changed the paragraph with 
the link to:
<p>Here is a link to <a href="#thetarget">important words about the 
target</a>.</p>
...and the "important words about the target" get removed altogether. Those 
should not be removed, just the <a> tags around them should be removed.

Thanks for the help so far. I'm excited to see a lua filter in action for 
my first time. Very curious about the api... I presume pandoc is looking 
for functions with particular names like Link and Span? Would you mind 
confirming... this https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#type-link is the 
proper spot in the docs for referencing Link in this context... right?

I imagine this working example produce footnotes w/ page numbers for you in 
your environment...? Any idea what I could inspect to try to get it working 
in mine?
On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 3:57:02 AM UTC-5 Bastien Dumont wrote:

> Place the file under `~/.local/share/pandoc/filters`. You don't need the 
> executable flag.
>
> Le Saturday 26 November 2022 à 02:30:58PM, user account a écrit :
> > Thanks I wish that worked. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, here's 
> what I've
> > got…
> > 
> > `pandoc --version` says user data dir is `~/.local/share/pandoc` so I 
> placed
> > this file there as `~/.local/share/pandoc/links-with-page-number.lua` 
> and did
> > (just in case) `chmod +x` on it.
> > 
> > `pandoc -o test.pdf test.html` produces a 2page pdf as expected with no
> > footnotes.
> > 
> > `pandoc -L links-with-page-number.lua -o test.pdf test.html` fails to 
> produce
> > pdf file with:
> > ```
> > Error running filter links-with-page-number.lua:
> > links-with-page-number.lua: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file 
> or
> > directory)
> > ```
> > 
> > There's no typo in my script name or command invocation. Using ~/.pandoc
> > instead of ~/.local/share/pandoc doesn't make any difference, still get 
> that
> > same error.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-5 Bastien Dumont wrote:
> > 
> > Please find attached a basic implementation. As in the attached sample 
> HMTL
> > file, I suppose that the targets are marked with ids on spans and that 
> you
> > link to it via empty <a> elements. If you have a LaTeX installation, 
> simply
> > do `pandoc -L links-with-page-number.lua -o test.pdf test.html` to see 
> the
> > result.
> > 
> > Le Saturday 26 November 2022 à 05:21:25AM, user account a écrit :
> > > Thanks! Yeah injecting html in the intermediary document doesn't sound
> > very
> > > promising either (again, because the pages have to be built first 
> before
> > > footnotes updated with page #s) so maybe I'll abandon weasyprint in 
> this
> > case,
> > > if this would be easy to do with a *Tex pdf engine. In that case... how
> > would
> > > one go about this? Would a lua filter be more capable with a different
> > pdf
> > > engine or would a different mechanism be used?
> > >
> > > On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 5:28:31 AM UTC-5 Bastien Dumont 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem is that Pandoc does not produce the PDF document: it 
> produces
> > > the intermediary HTML document that is processed by weasyprint to 
> produce
> > > the PDF. So you cannot get page numbers in a Lua filter.
> > >
> > > However, you can inject raw HTML code in the intermediary file (or in
> > your
> > > CSS) that will make weasyprint print the page numbers. The question is
> > > whether such HTML code exists. It certainly would be possible to do 
> this
> > if
> > > you converted to PDF via LaTeX, ConTeXt or groff, but I don't know if 
> it
> > is
> > > possible via weasyprint.
> > >
> > > Le Friday 25 November 2022 à 04:33:05PM, user account a écrit :
> > > > Using pandoc with weasyprint pdf engine to turn the markdown files 
> from
> > a
> > > blog
> > > > (static site generator does the html conversion) into a pdf for 
> print.
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible, perhaps with a custom lua filter or some other
> > > mechanism,
> > > > to add the page number of the linked-to page? The page numbers won't 
> be
> > > known
> > > > until pandoc has already created the document, and I don't know where
> > in
> > > 'the
> > > > pipeline' the lua filter intervenes compared to when the pages
> > exist...?
> > > And
> > > > If the pages exist with their numbers earlier enough, is there an
> > object
> > > or
> > > > something from which lua can get the page number?
> > > >
> > > > I haven't found anything about page numbers in [1][1]
> https://pandoc.org
> > /
> > > > lua-filters.html#module-pandoc.utils ...am I looking in the wrong
> > place?
> > > Can
> > > > anyone tell me anything about this?
> > > >
> > > > It's an intimidating rabbit hole for me, particularly because I see 
> no
> > > mention
> > > > of "page number" there in the docs, which makes it seem kinda 
> hopeless
> > > > actually. But maybe one of you know the way and could point me in 
> that
> > > > direction?
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