Feature Request: RST input

[tomduck]

I am very interested in what pandoc-fignos does, but work with RST. It would be great if fignos handled rst input as well.

Originally posted by @ociule in https://github.com/tomduck/pandoc-fignos/issues/34#issuecomment-502037940

[ociule]

Thanks for the attention you're giving to this @tomduck

Just so you do not duplicate some analysis work I've done, here's my take on what needs to be patched in pandoc for this to become possible: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5619

[tomduck]

Thanks, @ociule. Note that the markdown cross-referencing spec was designed by @scaramouche1 in this post. Something similar would be needed for rst.

I don't expect to get to this soon, but want to keep tabs on the idea for future reference. There is a new 2.0.0 branch I am finalizing at the moment.

[ociule]

I'm very happy to report that rst support already works in pandoc-tablenos.

One just has to use the same trick md tables use, adding an id like `{#tbl:a} to the table caption.

Here's a working example rst example:

.. table:: Demonstration of a simple table. {#tbl:a}
   :widths: auto

   =====  =====
     A    not A
   =====  =====
   False  True
   True   False
   =====  =====

As reported in https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5619 this is transformed in the following native code:

[Table [Str "Table:",Space,Str "Demonstration",Space,Str "of",Space,Str "a",Space,Str "simple",Space,Str "table.",Space,Str "{#tbl:a}"] [AlignDefault,AlignDefault] [0.0,0.0]
 [[Plain [Str "A"]]
 ,[Plain [Str "not",Space,Str "A"]]]
 [[[Plain [Str "False"]]
  ,[Plain [Str "True"]]]
 ,[[Plain [Str "True"]]
  ,[Plain [Str "False"]]]]]

Even if the {#tbl:a} bit was never parsed by pandoc, it is parsed by pandoc-tablenos (possibly py pandocfilters) so this works out of the box. I think documenting this would be valuable.

Edit: this works for numbering the tables, not for referencing them. Can't find a way to get a Citation element out of pandoc with rst input.

[tomduck]

That is good to hear. Maybe it won't be a difficult as I first thought.

[ociule]

The same trick does not work in fignos. The rst fragment:

.. figure:: img1.jpg
  :name: The number one. {#fig:1}
  :width: 1in

  The number one. {#fig:1}

The name option is ignored by pandoc.Readers.RST anyway.