org-mode MACRO not expanded

[b3]

When converting from an org-mode file org macros are not expanded (in fact there are not dealt at all).

For instance the following org-mode file:

#+MACRO: foo bar
should be foobar but is foo{{{foo}}}

should be translated by pandoc -f org -t tex macro.org macro.tex to

should be foobar but is foobar

but is translated instead into:

should be foobar but is foo\{\{\{foo\}\}\}

[tarleb]

Thanks for the report. Indeed, macros haven't been implemented yet. I hope to get this fixed in time for the upcoming pandoc 2.

[tarleb]

Emacs org-mode allows arbitrary recursion in macros, meaning that the following document would loop indefinitely:

#+MACRO: test {{{test}}}
{{{test}}}

Doing the same in pandoc would leave trypandoc open to very simple denial of service attacks. I'm going to limit recursion to a depth of 15 for that reason.

[jgm]

Out of curiosity, what does Emacs itself do with these infinitely looping macros? Does it freeze?

[b3]

It loops and kinda freezes :-/
One should use C-g to stop it.