pandoc/lua-filters

error running filter

pavilaalo opened this issue · 5 comments

pavilaalo commented

Hi,

I am getting this error when rendering the filters (scholarly-metadata and author-info-blocks) that previously worked.

scholarly-metadata.lua:95: not a named object: List: 0x7fc1a771ecf0
stack traceback:
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:95: in function 'to_named_object'
[C]: in function 'pandoc.List.map'
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:144: in upvalue 'canonicalize'
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:176: in function <...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:175>
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 83
Execution halted

I did not change the code, is the code I had and worked

output:
bookdown::word_document2:
pandoc_args:
- --lua-filter=/scholarly-metadata.lua
- --lua-filter=/author-info-blocks.lua
- --reference-doc=/style_template_manuscript.docx

SESSION INFO

R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.4

Matrix products: default
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.1 bookdown_0.29 fastmap_1.1.0 htmltools_0.5.3 tools_4.2.1
[6] yaml_2.3.5 rmarkdown_2.16 knitr_1.40 xfun_0.33 digest_0.6.29
[11] rlang_1.0.6 evaluate_0.16

Any suggestion?
Is it possible to use these filters in Quarto?

Pablo

tarleb commented

It might be possible to get those filters to work in Quarto, but Quarto has its own mechanism for author names and affiliations. AFAIK it is partially based on the filters you mention, and I'd recommend to use that if possible. In fact, I'm planning to deprecate the two filters here in the future. Let us know if there a blockers that prevent you from using Quarto's default mechanism for this and we can try to find ways to make it work.

Cc @cderv

pavilaalo commented

Thank you for your response. I haven't switched to quarto yet but I have tried. There are templates for different journals that allow to include author affiliations but I haven't been able to get them printed and they are set for pdf or html output (not MS Word). Unfortunately, most of the journals I submit require that the manuscript be in MS word (and I have to say that the filters are great).
Also, it is possible to include the filters in quarto as they are (so I hope you don't deprecate them) including the following in the YAML (see also quarto-dev/quarto-cli#287)

filters:

  • scholarly-metadata.lua
  • author-info-blocks.lua
  • quarto

but I get the same error as in Rmarkdown.

Any idea about this error? any idea on how to make them work (at least in Rmarkdown)?

scholarly-metadata.lua:95: not a named object: List: 0x7fc1a771ecf0
stack traceback:
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:95: in function 'to_named_object'
[C]: in function 'pandoc.List.map'
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:144: in upvalue 'canonicalize'
...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:176: in function <...d /scholarly-metadata.lua:175>
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 83
Execution halted

cderv commented

@pavilaalo can you open an issue in https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown/ and share an example I can use to reproduce ?

bookdown uses some filters too for some features, and maybe there is a conflict. Thank you

pavilaalo commented
tarleb commented

The problem has been identified in the linked issue. Closing here