Link validation triggers when PANDOC links refer to Zotero citations

[elonden]

When I insert a link definition like [@abc123] pandoc will look in my Zotero citation reference (bibtex) and insert a reference number pointing to a link at the end of my document.

Markdownlint does flag this as an error and mentions "no link definition found". As there is no MD number associated I can't exclude it. At least I haven't found a way to do this..

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Regards
Erwin

[DavidAnson]

I'm not familiar with Zotero or bibtex, neither is part of the CommonMark specification as far as I know. You probably want to disable the relevant rule for your project, it sounds like MD052/reference-links-images, but the name can be found in the error you are getting.

[elonden]

Hello David,

This is the trigger I get:

It doesn't show an MD number so I'm a bit in limbo here.

[DavidAnson]

I don't think that error is coming from a built-in markdownlint rule:

1. The new rule is not yet available in the VS Code extension
2. The message from MD052 is worded differently:

   markdownlint/lib/md052.js

   Line 27 in 51cec76

   `Missing link or image reference definition: "${label}"`,

I think you may be seeing new VS Code behavior: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_68#_markdown-link-validation

[elonden]

David, you are correct. A while ago I enabled the internal vscode experimental markdown validation. This is where that warning message came from. As I referenced these links somewhat differently before I did not notice this.

Now I've set this to ignore and things look a lot better.. :-)

Sorry for bothering. Maybe it'll help someone though...

Regards
Erwin