From ba09d2942a93c6d2ce225decd0cfd1c9311476d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:29:21 -0700 Subject: lua-filters.md: add links to filters, and to lua-filters repository. Closes #4874. --- doc/lua-filters.md | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/lua-filters.md b/doc/lua-filters.md index 19428cde6..9604997df 100644 --- a/doc/lua-filters.md +++ b/doc/lua-filters.md @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ title: Pandoc Lua Filters Pandoc has long supported filters, which allow the pandoc abstract syntax tree (AST) to be manipulated between the parsing -and the writing phase. Traditional pandoc filters accept a JSON -representation of the pandoc AST and produce an altered JSON -representation of the AST. They may be written in any -programming language, and invoked from pandoc using the -`--filter` option. +and the writing phase. [Traditional pandoc +filters](filters.html) accept a JSON representation of the +pandoc AST and produce an altered JSON representation of the +AST. They may be written in any programming language, and +invoked from pandoc using the `--filter` option. Although traditional filters are very flexible, they have a couple of disadvantages. First, there is some overhead in @@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ colon syntax (`mystring:uc_upper()`). # Examples +The following filters are presented as examples. +A repository of useful lua filters (which may also serve +as good examples) is available at +. + ## Macro substitution. The following filter converts the string `{{helloworld}}` into -- cgit v1.2.3