How disable pandoc manipulating abbreviations in quarto?

[iusgit]

Description

Hello,
I just found out that pandoc has a list of abbreviations where after their occurence a non-breaking space would be set in certain formats (Latex). The substitution seems to happen at the markdown reading stage.

When I search for abbreviated text (German "d. h." -> English "i.e." ) elements in my LUA filter, I wouldn't find, because there sits invisible "non-breaking space" in the string after stringify'ing and LUA's s:match and s:find cannot find "d. h." in it. It is also annoying, because in normal mode we would have Str("d."),Space(),Str("h.") whereas now we find Str("d. h.")which is not searchable.

I want to disable the abbreviation substitution, one option is to provide commandline option "--abbreviations=FILE" with an empty file.

But how to tell Quarto to use that commandline option?

[mcanouil]

Without a reproducible example I can't test now.
Quarto offers abbreviations YAML key which take a file, see https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/html.html#rendering.
Also you can use Pandoc commandline args in Quarto, it should work: quarto render --abbreviations=FILE

[iusgit]

Thanks for the explanation!

And indeed, abbreviations is the right keyword. I added an empty file and the NBSP went away!

[iusgit]

It is solved... But the example is:

---
title: "Untitled"
format: pdf
keep-tex: true
---

Test for abbreviations. e.g. Ph.D. vs. Prof. incl. Ms. Sept. is gonna get a tilda.

leads to tex:

Test for abbreviations. e.g.~Ph.D.~vs.~Prof.~incl.~Ms.~Sept.~is gonna
get a tilda.

But having

---
title: "Untitled"
format: pdf
keep-tex: true
abbreviations: abbrev.txt # empty file
---

Test for abbreviations. e.g. Ph.D. vs. Prof. incl. Ms. Sept. is gonna get a tilda.

we get in tex:

Test for abbreviations. e.g. Ph.D. vs. Prof. incl. Ms. Sept. is gonna
get a tilda.

Of course, those NBSP make usually sense, but if you want handle things yourself, the Pandoc AST is different than expected without disabling the abbreviations.