On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 8:52:52 AM UTC-5 Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
If you use Prince as the PDF generator, you can produce quite advanced footnotes:
https://css4.pub/2022/footnotes/
Also, Prince supports sidenotes, aiming for the holy grail of Tufte-like layout:
https://css4.pub
https://css4.pub/2022/sidenotes/
To add the page number of the linked-to page (which was the original
question), Prince supports the "target-counter" feature in CSS.
https://www.princexml.com/doc/gen-content/
This is often used to create ToCs:
https://css4.pub/2022/toc/
(Prince is a commercial product, but free for non-commercial use. I work for the company.)
Håkon Wium Lie haa...@wiumlie.no www.wiumlie.no/en
> 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 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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