Small caps combined with language

[adunning]

If one combines .smallcaps with another attribute in a span, this is not converted into native SmallCaps. For example:

pandoc -t latex << EOT
[test1]{.smallcaps lang=la}

[test2]{.smallcaps}

EOT

Result:

\textlatin{test1}

\textsc{test2}

[mb21]

Note it's still there in the native rep:

$ echo '[test1]{.smallcaps lang=la}' | pandoc -t native

[Para [Span ("",["smallcaps"],[("lang","la")]) [Str "test1"]]]

The expected output for [test1]{.smallcaps lang=la} would be the following?

\textsc{\textlatin{test1}}

[adunning]

The problem is that it's recognized as a span class, but not actual small caps (it doesn't work in .docx either); the output of echo '[test]{.smallcaps}' | pandoc -t native is [Para [SmallCaps [Str "test"]]].

[adunning]

(In other words, it has nothing to do with the LaTeX writer; I was only using that format as a readable example.)

[jgm]

Parsing it as SmallCaps would lose the lang attribute -- I think that's why we didn't do it that way. However, I suppose we could create this: Span ("",[],[("lang","fr")]) [SmallCaps [Str "test"]] +++ Andrew Dunning [Nov 27 17 20:08 ]:

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[ickc]

Parsing it as SmallCaps would lose the lang attribute -- I think that's why we didn't do it that way.

It has always been like this in pandoc even without the "native small caps syntax" such as [test2]{.smallcaps}. The problem is the native AST element representing small caps does not allow attribute. So even in the old syntax, only a very particular combination would be parsed as the small caps AST element.

(That's why when I first PR the support of [SC]{.smallcaps} syntax this behavior isn't changed. So in a sense this is a "not a regression" kind of issue.)

In this sense it is related to #684.