Note: This is an alpha pre-release. To install, use:

pip install git+https://github.com/tomduck/pandoc-theoremnos.git --user

(to upgrade append the --upgrade flag).

pandoc-theoremnos 2.0.0a3

pandoc-theoremnos is a pandoc filter for numbering theorem-like environments and their references when converting markdown to other formats. It is part of the pandoc-xnos filter suite. LaTeX/pdf, html, and epub output have native support. Native support for docx output is a work in progress.

Demonstration: Processing demo.md with pandoc + pandoc-theoremnos gives numbered theorems and references in pdf, tex, html, epub and other formats.

This version of pandoc-theoremnos was tested using pandoc 1.15.2 - 2.7.3,¹ and may be used with linux, macOS, and Windows. Bug reports and feature requests may be posted on the project's Issues tracker. If you find pandoc-theoremnos useful, then please kindly give it a star on GitHub.

See also: pandoc-fignos, pandoc-eqnos, pandoc-secnos, pandoc-tablenos
Other filters: pandoc-comments, pandoc-latex-extensions

Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Markdown Syntax
4. Customization
5. Technical Details
6. Getting Help
7. Development
8. What's New

Installation

Pandoc-theoremnos requires python, a programming language that comes pre-installed on macOS and linux. It is easily installed on Windows -- see here. Either python 2.7 or 3.x will do.

Pandoc-theoremnos may be installed using the shell command

pip install pandoc-theoremnos --user

and upgraded by appending --upgrade to the above command. Pip is a program that downloads and installs software from the Python Package Index, PyPI. It normally comes installed with a python distribution.²

Pandoc-theoremnos has not (yet) been packaged for pip, please install from source.

Instructions for installing from source are given in DEVELOPERS.md.

Usage

Pandoc-theoremnos is activated by using the

--filter pandoc-theoremnos

option with pandoc. Alternatively, use

--filter pandoc-xnos

to activate all of the filters in the pandoc-xnos suite (if installed).

Any use of --filter pandoc-citeproc or --bibliography=FILE should come after the pandoc-theoremnos or pandoc-xnos filter calls.

Markdown Syntax

The cross-referencing syntax used by pandoc-theoremnos was worked out in pandoc-eqnos Issue #18. As there is no particular theorem markup in markdown, definition lists are used instead.

To mark a definition list as a theorem, definition, lemma, proof, etc., add an id to its attributes:

[My Theorem]{#thm:id}
: This is my theorem.

A prefix such as #thm: is required and specifies the type. Types must be defined by customization before being usable. id should be replaced with a unique identifier composed of letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. The term My Theorem is the optional name of the theorem.

To reference the theorem, use

@thm:id

or

{@thm:id}

Curly braces protect a reference and are stripped from the output.

Clever References

Writing markdown like

See Theorem @thm:id.

seems a bit redundant. Pandoc-theoremnos supports "clever references" via single-character modifiers in front of a reference. Users may write

 See +@thm:id.

to have the reference name (i.e., "Theorem") automatically generated. The above form is used mid-sentence. At the beginning of a sentence, use

 *@thm:id

instead. If clever references are enabled by default (see Customization, below), then users may disable it for a given reference using²

!@thm:id

Note: When using *thm:id and emphasis (e.g., *italics*) in the same sentence, the * in the clever reference must be backslash-escaped; e.g., \*thm:id.

Disabling Links

To disable a link on a reference, set nolink=True in the reference's attributes:

@thm:id{nolink=True}

Customization

Pandoc-theoremnos may be customized by setting variables in the metadata block or on the command line (using -M KEY=VAL). The following variables are supported:

• theoremnos-names - This is mandatory and specifies the list of theorem-like environments. Every list entry is a map with two entries: id specifies the type identifier (e.g. thm) whereas name sets the printed name that will be put in front of the number (e.g. Theorem).

• theoremnos-warning-level or xnos-warning-level - Set to 0 for no warnings, 1 for critical warnings, or 2 (default) for all warnings. Warning level 2 should be used when troubleshooting.

• theoremnos-cleveref or just cleveref - Set to True to assume "+" clever references by default;

• xnos-capitalise - Capitalises the names of "+" references (e.g., change from "table" to "Table");

• theoremnos-number-by-section or xnos-number-by-section - Set to True to number theorems by section (i.e. Theorem 1.1, 1.2, etc in Section 1, and Theorem 2.1, 2.2, etc in Section 2). For LaTeX/pdf, html, and epub output, this feature should be used together with pandoc's --number-sections option enabled. For docx, use docx custom styles instead.

  This option should not be set for numbering by chapter in LaTeX/pdf book document classes.

• xnos-number-offset - Set to an integer to offset the section numbers when numbering tables by section. For html and epub output, this feature should be used together with pandoc's --number-offset option set to the same integer value. For LaTeX/PDF, this option offsets the actual section numbers as required.

• theoremnos-shared-counter - Set to 'True' if all theorem type shall share the same counter (i.e. Definition 1, Theorem 2) instead of counting separately for every type.

Note that variables beginning with theoremnos- apply to only pandoc-theoremnos, whereas variables beginning with xnos- apply to all of the pandoc-fignos/eqnos/tablenos/secnos/theremnos.

Technical Details

TeX/pdf Output

During processing, pandoc-theoremnos inserts packages and supporting TeX into the header-includes metadata field. To see what is inserted, set the theoremnos-warning-level meta variable to 2. Note that any use of pandoc's --include-in-header option overrides all header-includes.

An example reference in TeX looks like

See \cref{thm:1}.

For every entry in the theoremnos-names meta variable, a theorem type will be defined like

\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}

An example theorem looks like

\begin{thm}[My Theorem]
  \label{th:1}
  This is my theorem.
\end{thm}

Other details:

• The cleveref and caption packages are used for clever references and caption control, respectively;
• The \label and \ref macros are used for table labels and references, respectively (\Cref and \cref are used for clever references);
• Clever reference names are set with \Crefname and \crefname;

Other Output Formats

An example reference in html looks like

See theorem <a href="#thm:1">1</a>.

An example theorem looks like

<dl id="thm:1" class="theoremnos">
  <dt>Theorem 1 (My Theorem):</dt>
  <dd>
     This is my theorem.
  </dd>
</dl>

Docx Output

Docx OOXML output is under development and subject to change. Native capabilities will be used wherever possible.

Getting Help

If you have any difficulties with pandoc-theoremnos, or would like to see a new feature, then please submit a report to our Issues tracker.

Development

Pandoc-theoremnos will continue to support pandoc 1.15-onward and python 2 & 3 for the foreseeable future. The reasons for this are that a) some users cannot upgrade pandoc and/or python; and b) supporting all versions tends to make pandoc-theoremnos more robust.

Developer notes are maintained in DEVELOPERS.md.

What's New

New in 2.0.0: Initial release.

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Footnotes

1: Pandoc 2.4 broke how references are parsed, and so is not supported.

2: Anaconda users may be tempted to use conda instead. This is not advised. The packages distributed on the Anaconda cloud are unofficial, are not posted by me, and in some cases are ancient. Some tips on using pip in a conda environment may be found here.

3: The disabling modifier "!" is used instead of "-" because pandoc unnecessarily drops minus signs in front of references.