Markdown reader: Simplify and fix normal citation parsing.

Closes #10584. This fixes a bug that causes some normal citations to be parsed as bracketed regular citations.
jgm · Feb 1, 2025 · 8e18a81 · 8e18a81
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diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs
@@ -2267,7 +2267,11 @@ bareloc c = try $ do
 
 normalCite :: PandocMonad m => MarkdownParser m (F [Citation])
 normalCite = try $ do
-  citations <- inBalancedBrackets (spnl *> citeList <* spnl)
+  char '['
+  spnl
+  citations <- citeList
+  spnl
+  char ']'
   -- not a link or a bracketed span
   notFollowedBy (try (void source) <|>
                   (guardEnabled Ext_bracketed_spans *> void attributes) <|>