tomncooper/pandoc-gls

A pandoc filter allowing easier syntax for the Latex glossaries package with Markdown documents

pandoc-gls's Issues

Acronym preceded or followed by en dash or em dash drops text

E.g.,

front text---(+term)--followed by text

Renders out as:

front \gls{term} by text

It's not at all clear what's going on here. It works when (+term) is preceded or followed by a hyphen, but not a double or triple hyphen. front and back match terms are both greedy--i.e., (%g*)--so it seems to me should work.

Preceding text is discarded if acronym follows a non-breaking space

Pandoc automatically inserts non-breaking spaces after abbreviations such as "e.g." and "i.e.".
As a consequence, the words processed by the Str function of this filter may actually contain whitespace characters.
However, the filter merely matches printable characters (not including spaces) via %g* to identify the text before/after the acronym.
As a result, text before a non-breaking space will be discarded.

This problem is reproducible by the following example:

Some text (e.g. (+FOOBAR))).

Which will produce the following LaTeX output:

Some text \gls{FOOBAR}.

I'd suggest to use a .* instead of a %g* to match the front and back part.

When creating html the entries don't appear

Hi,
Not sure if this is supposed to work, but when I generate an html file with pandoc none of this appears to work. In otherwords the term doesn't appear in the text (eg if I put (+foo)) nothing appears, and the glossary section doesn't appear.
Before delving further, is it supposed to work for html output?
Cheers
Matt

Why not YAML for defining the entries?

Just wondering (and sorry if I missed something; I only briefly looked) as I'm thinking about glossaries in org-mode, why not use YAML, since it's used elsewhere in the pandoc universe?

title: my animal glossary
entries:
    horse:
        name: horse
        description: a four-legged animal

Docx compatible

Hi Tom,

I tested your filter with converting a Markdown file to Word docx. format, instead of PDF, but it didn't work. Is it generally possible using your filter for the purpose or not?
Maybe I did something wrong.

Thanks
Andreas

With active filter no lot, toc, lof is printed

Hi Tom,

with pandoc 2.16.2 the lua-filter prevents the print of the lot, toc, lof and the list of acronyms and glossary entries.
If I use \gls{} for the acronyms and glossary entries in the text, everything works fine.

There must be a change in the actual Pandoc version. A few weeks ago the lua-filter worked normal.

Regards
Andreas

big feature request

Hi Tom,

This package is great. So, now I would like to be able to write my glossaries in markdown as well as using markdown-ish syntax to use them. So, how about it?

(I would have sent an email but didn't see your email on your site. Mine is not even slightly disguised (I need to fix that) on my website: sigfried.org)

Thanks!
Sigfried

Filter doesn't match terms with numbers in them

E.g., (+K8S) will not be substituted with \gls{K8S} even though the label is legal.

Plurals in glossary.tex

Hi Tom,

Wonderful solution which makes writing much easier. Thank you very much for sharing.
Only one question: Plurals with (+^x) isn't working for me. Do you have an example of an entry in "glossary.tex" with a working plural?

Thanks
Andreas