Pandoc and Abbreviations

Question

I'm trying to generate an ePub file with abbreviations. Here's an example:

input.md:

--- title: Test language: en --- # Test HTML is maintained by W3C.

and abbr.md:

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language *[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

and get-epub.sh:

#!/bin/bash pandoc -f markdown+abbreviations -t epub\ --abbreviations="abbr.md"\ "input.md" -o "output.epub";

I'm expecting to see something like this in the output.epub file:

<p> <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> is maintained by <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>. </p>

while the actual output is:

<p> HTML is maintained by W3C. </p>

Did I miss something here?

tarleb · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-02 14:23:03Z

The purpose of the abbreviations file is to list all words which serve as abbreviations, but only to adjust typography for those (like adding non-breaking spaces, not treating the dot as the end of a sentence, etc.)

The syntax in your example is not supported by pandoc. (Where is it from?)

There are plugins ("filters" in pandoc lingo) which should allow you to generate the desired outcome. Example: https://github.com/dsanson/pandoc-abbreviations.lua

dsanson's solution doesn't work with the current version of pandoc. github.com/dsanson/pandoc-abbreviations.lua/issues/1 Might want to try github.com/mittelmark/pandoc-abbreviations — Chad Skeeters
– Chad Skeeters, Commented Sep 28, 2024 at 20:30

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