Re: Number all paragraphs (for cross references)

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

There's no native pandoc construction that renders in
uniformly as a margin note.

To get the result you want, you'd need to use filters
or a custom writer, and this would require some
hand-coding for each format you want to support.

One filter might put each paragraph in a Div with
an identifier giving the unique number (in order).

For HTML output, you might then just need to add some
CSS (and possibly JS) that displays the identifier in
the margin as needed.

For LaTeX, you'd need another filter (or it could be
part of the same one) that adds a bit of custom LaTeX
to do this, for each appropriately marked Div.

This isn't super-hard to do, but it's not "out of the box."

Sage Mad <sagemad-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Thanks for this same kind of answer, but although I haven't the programing 
> skills, it seems to me that if pandoc's markdown format allow to put 
> footnotes, which are recognized in all the output formats, it should be 
> possible also with "margin notes" (understand numbered paragraphs). I saw 
> that there was a proposition to include sidenotes in this form : [>1]. The 
> proposition was actually about footnotes in the margins, but the same could 
> be done for "my" margin notes. The [>"number"] next to each paragraph would 
> be ordered like the footnotes at the conversion moment and it would also 
> allow me to cross reference them (assuming a solution is found for my cross 
> reference-footnotes 
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/qwN6zBWo-Xw> issue, 
> which would basically be the same).  
>
> Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2018 16:33:40 UTC+2 schrieb CR:
>>
>> By using CSS, when you generate HTML from your Pandoc Markdown, you could 
>> number paragraphs in the resulting HTML. But each output document format is 
>> different in how it will handle the paragraph numbering. 
>>
>> So it appears Pandoc does not support what you want.
>>
>>
>
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