How would you compile links into pdf?

[jorgemrisco]

We can link md to md using the [[]] syntax ("wiki-links").
It'd be nice to export markdowns to pdfs using pandoc.
But wiki-links arent recognized and rendered as text only

Any ideas on how to approach this scenario?

[artempyanykh]

Hi @jorgemrisco! I was thinking about adding a command to compile the docs into vanilla markdown by rewriting wiki-links into regular markdown links, e.g.

marksman compile --out <folder>

Then you'd be able to feed the result of marksman compile into pandoc. How does this sound?

[jorgemrisco]

@artempyanykh sounds like a perfect solution to ensure compatibility!

[jorgemrisco]

@artempyanykh another interesting point in this discussion would be:
But then the compiled pdf would have links pointing to other markdown files and not other pdf.

Would you consider this out of scope?

[David-Else]

While it may be trickier to convert the wikilinks, you can filter them out using lua filters for pandoc. Here is how I filter hashtags:

-- hashtag-filter.lua
function Str(elem)
  -- Check if the string starts with a hashtag
  if elem.text:match("^#%w+") then
    -- Replace the hashtag with an empty string
    return pandoc.Str(elem.text:gsub("^#%w+", ""))
  end
end

To use this filter, save the Lua code to a file named hashtag-filter.lua (in your pandoc filters dir) and then run Pandoc with the --lua-filter option:

pandoc input.md --lua-filter=hashtag-filter.lua -o output.html

This command will convert input.md to output.html and apply the Lua filter to remove hashtags.