Bookdown's gitbook appendix header not working

#1

My # (APPENDIX) Appendix {-} which was being treated previously as an unnumbered header:

24%20AM

is no longer being treated as such:

27%20AM

I am using the same (newest) version of bookdown. I'm wondering if something changed in gitbook?

Another change from before is that I specified split_by: chapter+number in _output.yml so previously my output files were:

1-main.html
A-supplemental.html

and now they are:

main.html
appendix-appendix.html
supplemental.html

The appendix-appendix.html is definitely erroneous as it should be an unnumbered header. Is anyone else noticing similar behaviour?

#2

Can you work a reproductible example to investigate that ?
For example by forking and branching from bookdown-demo and sharing your branch in your fork ?

This would really help trying to reproduce. There may be some side effect of recent changes.

#3

I don't have the capacity right now to create a reprex repo, but the issue arises from the recent pandoc update 2.7.3 -> 2.8. Seems like some related issues have already been raised:


For anyone trying to revert back on macOS, I ran the following via https://stackoverflow.com/a/46306176:

cd "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)"
git log master -- Formula/pandoc.rb
cd "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" && git checkout b65f084e360a327aa25acf24d25fcabc3e9aa19c
brew unlink pandoc
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install pandoc
git checkout master

Afterwards my bookdown report no longer had heading/numbering issues. Perhaps time to flag bookdown developers?

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#4

Yes you can open issue in bookdown repo with an example and your test. Just check if already raised or not.
Pandoc 2.8 can cause some pain for sure.

#5

For reference, it has been reported to