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references in the document so they point to the extracted files.
This option only affects the docx and epub readers.
+`--abbreviations=`*FILE*
+
+: Specifies a custom abbreviations file, with abbreviations
+ one to a line. If this option is not specified, pandoc will
+ read the data file `abbreviations` from the user data
+ directory or fall back on a system default. To see the
+ system default, use
+ `pandoc --print-default-data-file=abbreviations`. The only
+ use pandoc makes of this list is in the Markdown reader.
+ Strings ending in a period that are found in this list will
+ be followed by a nonbreaking space, so that the period will
+ not produce sentence-ending space in formats like LaTeX.
+
[`pandocfilters`]: https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters
[PHP]: https://github.com/vinai/pandocfilters-php
[perl]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Pandoc::Filter