Note there's a caveat to this solution: as the guide mentions, with 'block' 
the notes are placed at the end of the current **top-level** block, which 
might not be the paragraph itself.

Examples:

   - If the paragraph is an item in a list, the note is placed below the 
   list, not the item (and below main list if a nested list).
   - If the paragraph is within a fenced div, the note is placed after the 
   fenced div.
   - A corollary to the above: if a filter uses `make_sections`, the notes 
   might end up at end of document after all.


On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 9:55:26 PM UTC-5 Lyndon Drake wrote:

> Brilliant @EBkysko — that works exactly as I'd hoped. Thank you!
>
> On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 19:11:24 UTC-6 EBkysko wrote:
>
>> try (with markdown output 
>> <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers>)
>>
>> ```
>> --reference-location=block
>> ``` 
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:23:57 PM UTC-5 Gwern Branwen wrote:
>>
>>> This seems possibly tricky? I don't know what the Lua filters can or 
>>> cannot do, but I'm not sure how one could solve this using just the Haskell 
>>> API... Pandoc was not designed as a source-2-source processor so it doesn't 
>>> make much effort to support Markdown-to-Markdown passes - like the obvious 
>>> roundtrip will potentially change your Markdown formatting to a 
>>> semantically-equivalent but entirely different-looking Markdown doc. 
>>> (Macfarlane has said repeatedly that this will not be changed.)
>>>
>>> In your case, footnotes throw away the positioning information.
>>> Consider the 3 possibilities:
>>>
>>>     Foo[^foo].
>>>
>>>     Foo bar^[Bar.]
>>>
>>>     Foo baz[^baz]
>>>
>>>     [^baz]: Baz.
>>>  
>>>     [^foo]: foo.
>>>
>>> This parses into:
>>>
>>> [ Para
>>>     [ Str "Foo" , Note [ Para [ Str "foo." ] ] , Str "." ]
>>> , Para
>>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>>     , Space
>>>     , Str "bar"
>>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Bar." ] ]
>>>     ]
>>> , Para
>>>     [ Str "Foo"
>>>     , Space
>>>     , Str "baz"
>>>     , Note [ Para [ Str "Baz." ] ]
>>>     ]
>>> ]
>>>
>>> So you can't know 'where' a footnote body was put, whether at the end of 
>>> the doc or elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Further, Pandoc will write out the Markdown according to its own 
>>> conventions, which go opposite of what you want, by putting *all* footnote 
>>> bodies at the end, regardless of where they were or whether they could be 
>>> inline footnotes, and the Markdown writer probably takes no options which 
>>> would change that:
>>>
>>> Foo[^1].
>>>
>>> Foo bar[^2]
>>>
>>> Foo baz[^3]
>>>
>>> [^1]: foo.
>>>
>>> [^2]: Bar.
>>>
>>> [^3]: Baz.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> gwern
>>> https://gwern.net <https://www.gwern.net>
>>>
>>

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