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Pandoc with --natbib swallows locators in its output #10057

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wenkokke opened this issue Aug 5, 2024 · 4 comments
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Pandoc with --natbib swallows locators in its output #10057

wenkokke opened this issue Aug 5, 2024 · 4 comments
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wenkokke commented Aug 5, 2024 •
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Related to #9640 and #9962.

Pandoc with --natbib swallows locators in its output.

Create a file named sample.md with the following contents:

We all love the famous proof by @BenjaminHornigold [p. 42].
But is it real?
No. Probably not.

Run the following command:

pandoc sample.md --natbib -t latex

The expected output is:

We all love the famous proof by \citet[p. 42]{BenjaminHornigold}. But is it
real? No.~Probably not.

The actual output is:

We all love the famous proof by \citet[42]{BenjaminHornigold}. But is it
real? No.~Probably not.

It's possible that Pandoc applies default the Chicago style to when formatting locators.
However, passing --csl with an alternative style, such as Harvard, does not affect the output.

Pandoc version?
I'm running Pandoc 3.2.1 on macOS 13.

pandoc 3.2.1
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: /Users/keri/.local/share/pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2024 John MacFarlane. Web: https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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wenkokke commented Aug 5, 2024

This appears to be intentional. Why?

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX/Citation.hs#L111

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wenkokke commented Aug 5, 2024

There is a comment on L192:

-- | In natbib and biblatex, the label p. or pp. can be
-- omitted; ranges will be treated as page ranges by default.
-- See #9275.

Which leads to #9275.

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wenkokke commented Aug 5, 2024

The natbib documentation does not mention any feature where ranges are treated as page ranges by default. As far as I can tell, this is only a biblatex feature, and I don't believe #9275 made reference to natbib. Furthermore, the sample code in the natbib documentation manually inserts page labels:

Screenshot 2024-08-05 at 20 32 39

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wenkokke commented Aug 5, 2024

I would suggest only removing page locators for biblatex, and disabling this feature when --natbib is passed.

@jgm jgm closed this as completed in 9bf112b Aug 6, 2024
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