Pandoc: Handle <var> in HTML

[jgm]

Should be parsed as Code with a class var.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/var
This could be supported bidirectionally, in both reader and writer.

[mauriciocartagena]

Primeramente el var para que quieres usarlo

[Wandmalfarbe]

The elements <samp> and <tt> could be treated similarly.

[DavSanchez]

Hello!

I'd like to know more about this issue. For example, when talking about an HTML reader, do you just want <var> to have the same behaviour as <code>?

Maybe I can try and contribute to it. I'll read the code a little bit to see if I'm capable of doing it.

[jgm]

No, not the same behavior. In pandoc Code elements can have attributes; the suggestion is to add the var class to these attributes in parsing var.

[jgm]

@Wandmalfarbe on samp, see #5792. tt is already parsed as generic Code, which seems right.

[amogh09]

For Writers/HTML, do we want to check if var or samp is a member of Code's attribute classes and if so write <var> or <samp>, respectively, instead of <code>?

[jgm]

For Writers/HTML, do we want to check if var or samp is a member of Code's attribute classes and if so write <var> or <samp>, respectively, instead of <code>?

Yes, I think so.

Question: should we use var and samp as the classes, or variable and sample?

[amogh09]

I think variable and sample makes more sense. I will add this feature if @DavSanchez is not working (or planning to work) on it.

[DavSanchez]

@amogh09 please feel free to do it! At the moment I’m focusing my free time on HIE, so I don’t think I’ll be able to work in this, at least for a time.

[amogh09]

@jgm Added a PR for this feature. Please take a look.