From f5f6ff2c75adfe24b8add37feb869f59b760d1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:23:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MANUAL: document `--abbreviations`. Closes #256. --- MANUAL.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 7f4081327..b8954ea24 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -499,6 +499,19 @@ Reader options references in the document so they point to the extracted files. This option only affects the docx and epub readers. +`--abbreviations=`*FILE* + +: Specifies a custom abbreviations file, with abbreviations + one to a line. If this option is not specified, pandoc will + read the data file `abbreviations` from the user data + directory or fall back on a system default. To see the + system default, use + `pandoc --print-default-data-file=abbreviations`. The only + use pandoc makes of this list is in the Markdown reader. + Strings ending in a period that are found in this list will + be followed by a nonbreaking space, so that the period will + not produce sentence-ending space in formats like LaTeX. + [`pandocfilters`]: https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters [PHP]: https://github.com/vinai/pandocfilters-php [perl]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Pandoc::Filter