Description
Explain the problem.
When converting Markdown -> Mediawiki, an escaped asterisk is not escaped in Mediawiki output, causing it to be interpreted as a formatting character in some cases, such as when starting on a line.
I don't know whether it's a problem on Markdown input or Mediawiki output side.
Command: pandoc -f markdown -t mediawiki markdown-to-mediawiki-asterisk-bug.md -o -
Input (markdown-to-mediawiki-asterisk-bug.md):
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote\*
\* The footnote explains why it couldn't just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the "proper" footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.[^1]
[^1]: There's a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.
End of text.
Output:
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*
* The footnote explains why it couldn’t just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the “proper” footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.<ref>There’s a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.</ref>
End of text.
<references />
Will be displayed on MediaWiki as (it's not supposed to start a list!):
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*
- The footnote explains why it couldn’t just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the “proper” footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.[1]
End of text.
[1]: There’s a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.
I suppose it should've been enclosed in <nowiki> or something?
Pandoc version?
pandoc 3.1.8
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4