Can you post the files which cause an issue ? Le mercredi 19 juillet 2023 à 18:44:09 UTC+2, 'o-Dzin Tridral a écrit : > Hi Christophe, > > I'm sorry to follow up again, but I get an error with my large md file > > The filter fails with the error > > attempt to concatenate a nil value (field 'text') > > The error doesn't mention where the failure happens or what text is > causing the problem. If you have any advice re how to get more information > from pandoc or lua I would very much appreciate it. > > I entirely understand if you don't have time to look at this of course. > > best regards, > > 'ö-Dzin > > > > > འོད་འཛིན་དྲི་བྲལ > 'ö-Dzin Tridral > [image: https://]about.me/tridral > > > ☸ > *Drala Jong Appeal - creating a Buddhist retreat centre in Wales: > https://www.drala-jong.org/ *☸ > > ☸ Achos pan ddaw y Pedwar Marchog i ofyn a roist ti o dy gyfan - fydd gen > ti ddim esgus - Meinir Gwilym ☸ > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 17:19, 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote: > >> Hi Christophe, >> >> Thank you very much for your reply. >> >> I've not used lua filters before. It took me a while to realise how to >> make a command line with the input file and output file. >> >> I thought I'd write back and include tis for the benefit of any novices >> like me. >> >> I've now done this with your script, inserting the* '-i' *for the input >> file and using output redirection '*>' *for the output file >> >> pandoc --lua-filter note.lua -t markdown -i ** | sed -e >> 's/%%opening%%/\^\[/g' | sed -e 's/%%closing%%/\]/g' > ** >> >> This works on my small example file. >> >> Thank you once again. >> >> 'ö-Dzin >> >> >> >> >> འོད་འཛིན་དྲི་བྲལ >> 'ö-Dzin Tridral >> [image: https://]about.me/tridral >> >> >> ☸ >> *Drala Jong Appeal - creating a Buddhist retreat centre in Wales: >> https://www.drala-jong.org/ *☸ >> >> ☸ Achos pan ddaw y Pedwar Marchog i ofyn a roist ti o dy gyfan - fydd >> gen ti ddim esgus - Meinir Gwilym ☸ >> >> >> On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 14:36, Christophe Demko wrote: >> >>> You can use a lua filter: >>> >>> $ pandoc --lua-filter note.lua -t markdown | sed -e >>> 's/%%opening%%/\^\[/g' | sed -e 's/%%closing%%/\]/g' >>> >>> with this note.lua file >>> >>> function Note(note) >>> note.content[1].content[1].text = "%%opening%%" .. >>> note.content[1].content[1].text >>> note.content[1].content[#note.content[1].content].text = >>> note.content[1].content[#note.content[1].content].text .. "%%closing%%" >>> return note.content[1].content >>> end >>> Le dimanche 16 juillet 2023 à 17:35:38 UTC+2, tri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org a écrit : >>> >>>> Is it possible to use Pandoc to convert an md file that has reference >>>> footnotes to one that has inline footnotes - just by going from md -> md, >>>> but failing that via another format. >>>> >>>> I have a file containing reference footnotes like this >>>> ---- >>>> Example[^1] line of text. >>>> >>>> [^1]: Example footnote >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> I would like to convert them all to inline footnotes like this >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Example^[Example footnote] line of text. >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> Thank you for any help >>>> >>>> 'ö-Dzin >>>> >>> -- >>> 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/dabd9a50-de23-47d9-971e-cfc8d1b92e0dn%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/fdfa600a-c418-467e-a01b-2f8af160eba9n%40googlegroups.com.