Re: Detectiing footnotes in Lua scripts

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

This is a limitation of the current architecture -- there's no
way to determine the "parent" context.  Sometimes you can work
around this by using walk_block to do a transformation inside
a particular kind of block (e.g. a footnote) -- but in this
case you want to do the transformation OUTSIDE of the block,
and that's more difficult.

Doesn't pandoc's --citeproc do this punctuation moving for you
(in the case of citations automatically added as footnotes)?
If not, try setting `notes-after-punctuation` as described in
the manual.

(If you are talking about footnotoes you insert explicitly,
instead of citations that become footnotes, then this doesn't
apply, but in that case why would you need to adjust the
punctuation?)

jcr <ffi.appdev-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I find in Lua filters that I sometimes would like to know whether or not 
> I'm in a footnote. Currently, I'm trying to move punctuation before 
> footnotes. Given my citation style, I know that a Cite in body text will 
> produce a footnote, while a Cite in a footnote will not. So I want to move 
> punctuation before a Cite when it's not in a footnote. Since a filter 
> function for Inlines will descend into footnotes as well, there doesn't 
> seem to be any way to tell when the Cite is in a footnote.
>
> In this particular case, I can work around the limitation because any Cite 
> in a footnote will either be the first element or will have a Space before 
> it. So with that assumption, I can look for the last innermost element 
> before the Cite and check its type: if it's a Str,  can append the 
> punctuation to it and delete the punctuation from where it was. if it's a 
> Space, I do nothing, because I must be in a footnote. However, at least in 
> the long term, I'd like to be able to tell whether or not I'm in a footnote.
>
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