nested footnotes

[gour]

There is one feature which I occassionally need that seems to be problematic with certain markup and
especially when converting from one markup to another.

Afaik, Asciidoc(tor) cannot cope with nested footnotes, but rst and (extended) markdown can do it.

Here are simple examples:

• rst

This is a sentence with the first footnote. [1]_

Here is the second one. [2]_

.. [1] Text of the 1st footnote having nested [3]_ footnote.

.. [2] This is the text for the 2nd footnote.

.. [3] Text of the nested footnote.

and the generated output is:

This is a sentence with the first footnote.[^1]

Here is the second one.[^2]

[^1]: Text of the 1st footnote having nested footnote.

[^2]: This is the text for the 2nd footnote.

• with the markdown --> rst conversion, the following file:

This is a sentence with the first footnote.[^1]

Here is the second one.[^2]

[^1]: Text of the 1st footnote having nested[^3] footnote.

[^2]: This is the text for the 2nd footnote.

[^3]: Text of the nested footnote.

gives the following:

This is a sentence with the first footnote. [1]_

Here is the second one. [2]_

.. [1]
   Text of the 1st footnote having nested[^3] footnote.

.. [2]
   This is the text for the 2nd footnote.

My version of pandoc is 1.19.1 (Fedora version), but same thing with the online version.

[link2xt]

Possible duplicate of issue #2053

[gour]

@labdsf You're correct. It can be closed.