Link contains subscript: md2html

[anasram]

Pandoc version: 3.1.6

I'm trying to convert a markdown file to HTML.

The markdown file looks like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur [^\[link\]^](#ref "Title")
adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
magna aliqua.

Using the following command:

pandoc -f markdown -t html "markdown.md" -o "output.html";

The result was:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur [^\[link\]^](#ref “Title”)
adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
magna aliqua.</p>

While, when I put ^ outside the link, it works properly:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur <sup><a href="#ref"
title="Title">[link]</a></sup> adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>

Seems like:

• When a link contains a subscript: 🗷
• When a subscript contains a link: 🗹

[jgm]

The cause is this code at l. 1815 of the Markdown reader:

-- a reference label for a link
reference :: PandocMonad m => MarkdownParser m (F Inlines, Text)
reference = do
  guardDisabled Ext_footnotes <|> notFollowedBy' (string "[^")
  withRaw $ trimInlinesF <$> inlinesInBalancedBrackets

This is to prevent

hello[^noteref]

from being parsed as a link -- instead it is a footnote reference.

There may be a less heavy-handed way of handling this.

[jgm]

Workaround: add spaces

[ ^\[link\]^ ](#ref "Title")