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BooneJS on April 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim

Can you refer to figures and have the name rendered? For instance, a piece of text referring to a figure and the figure’s label will both get rendered to “Figure 2.8” regardless of paragraph edits and figures inserted or delete before it?

Symbiote on April 13, 2020 | [–]

For anything beyond the most basic document, use Acsiidoc rather than Markdown.

I prefer to use the Asciidoctor toolchain, but it's compatible with Acsiidoc.

thangalin on April 14, 2020 | | [–]

Pandoc has an extension for cross-references.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-crossref

https://lierdakil.github.io/pandoc-crossref/

halst on April 13, 2020 | [–]

So far, I got away with "In the following figure…"

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