Restart footnotes each chapter

[mk-uc]

I'm wondering if there's any way within Pandoc to restart the footnotes for each chapter when converting to docx. I can go in to Word afterward and do this—but this doesn't entirely solve the problem because references that have already been cited use their short form, and I think they need to be in their long, full reference.

[tarleb]

I'm not sure if I fully understand. Do those footnotes come from a citations? If so, maybe the section-bibliographies filter can help.

[denismaier]

I think the question is back references in citations. Something like when a reference has already been cited:

FN 1: John Doe, A book, Publisher, Year.
FN 25: Doe (see FN 1). 

[adunning]

Providing full notes with each new chapter is a fairly common requirement for note citations. For example, MHRA 7.12:

In a monograph or thesis […] give a full reference for a source at its first mention in the chapter, and shortened references later in that chapter. If it occurs again in a later chapter, give the full reference again at its first mention there.

Achieving this should be as simple as resetting the subsequent status of citations every time Pandoc encounters a heading of a certain level (e.g. heading 2 or above). This should be a perfect task for a Lua filter, but is this citeproc status accessible?

[jgm]

No, the citeproc function just takes a whole document and returns a document with citations.

Using --file-scope will work here, but I can't think of any other way to do it.

[denismaier]

Maybe something like this:

• collect all the citations
• split the document into chunks at a certain level
• run citeproc on each of the individual chunks, but don't insert a bibliography.
• build a bibliography based on the citations that were extracted in the first step

The recursive-citeproc filter calls citeproc, so this might serve as inspiration, also multibib and section-bibliographies. Section bibliographies might actually closest to the what is required here.

Nevertheless, would it be possible to add such a feature natively to pandoc? That would be really useful.