jgm/pandoc

latex acronym gls command is not expanded.

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#5,663 opened on Jul 26, 2019

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@jgm @schrieveslaach

See the example below when tex->docx via pandoc-2.7.3:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\newacronym{PITA}{PITA}{pain in the ass}
\begin{document}
   This is a \gls{PITA}. The second time is also \gls{PITA}. The plural \glspl{PITA} also is.
\end{document}

I'm receiving

This is a PITA. The second time is also PITA. The plural PITAs also is.

or

This is a [PITA]{acronym-label="PITA" acronym-form="singular+short"}.
The second time is also [PITA]{acronym-label="PITA"
acronym-form="singular+short"}. The plural [PITAs]{acronym-label="PITA"
acronym-form="plural+short"} also is.

in txt format.

I'm expecting the typical latex->pdf behaviour of expanding the first entry. Wasn't this added in PR#3589 !?

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Research direction
The issue pertains to the LaTeX reader in pandoc, specifically handling of the glossaries package. Previous PR #3589 attempted to add acronym expansion but appears incomplete. To fix, examine the LaTeX reader code (likely in src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs) and the Writer for DOCX (src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Docx.hs). The expected behavior is to expand the first occurrence of \gls to the long form. Check how the reader parses \gls and how the writer outputs it. The comments in the issue indicate that the raw text output shows the acronym markup, so the reader passes it through without processing. This suggests a missing implementation in the reader for the glossaries package.