Re: Normalize adjacent Emph separated by Space?

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

Yes, normalization is handled automatically -- but what we
mean by normalization doesn't include your case, where the
Space is *outside* the Emph and would be brought inside it.

You could write a filter that does this sort of normalization.
It would look in [Inline] lists for the pattern

  Emph xs , Space , Emph ys

and convert this to

  Emph (xs ++ Space:ys)


"christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" <christian.kolen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I recently have a situation that I want to have adjacent Emph separated by 
> Space to be “normalized”, combined to a single Emph. (And variants like 
> this.)
>
> --normalize is removed in 
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/8165014df679338d5bf228d84efc742c5ac39d2 
> and I’m not sure if it is related.
>
> Example:
>
> $ echo "*text* *abc*" | pandoc -f markdown -t native
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" ] , Space , Emph [ Str "abc" ] ]
> ]
>
> Is there someway to make it
>
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" , Space , Str "abc" ] ] ]
> ]
>
> Instead?
>
> Another example is (perhaps generated in a filter)
>
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text " ] , Emph [ Str "abc" ] ]]
>
> Is there some way to normalize it to
>
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" ] , Space, Emph [ Str "abc" ] ]]
>
> When I say “some way”, preferably it is some pandoc flags (for example 
> native to markdown then markdown to native is not reliable for the space 
> problem above and won’t work to merge adjacent Emph), but even if we’re 
> talking about doing it in filter, how to do things like this reliably?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S.
>
> Even for
>
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" ] , Emph [ Str "abc" ] ]]
>
> won’t be normalized:
>
> $ echo '[ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" ] , Emph [ Str "abc" ] ]]' | pandoc -f native -t native
> [ Para [ Emph [ Str "text" ] , Emph [ Str "abc" ] ] ]
>
> But the text in the commit message seems to suggest it should:
>
> normalization is handled automatically by the Builder monoid instance.
>
> (But the commit is old so may be there’s more to it in the later commits.)
> ​
>
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