I am having trouble getting the filter to work

[CGIII]

Hello! I admit that I am not very experienced at CLI yet. I cannot seem to get this Pandoc filter to work. It is likely my own ignorance standing in the way! lol

Here are the relevant details:

-Macos

-which mermaid-filter /opt/homebrew/bin/mermaid-filter

-which pandoc /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc

The full command that I tried and the results:

craig@Craig-MacBook-Pro Assignments % cd "/Users/craigi/Library/Assignments" && pandoc -s --from markdown-yaml_metadata_block mermaid-filter "Taking Theological Courses Online.md" -o "Taking Theological Courses Online.docx" --bibliography "/Users/craig/Library/Pandoc Resources/My Library.bib" --citeproc --csl "/Users/craig/Library/Containers/Pandoc Resources/chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl" --reference-doc="/Users/craig/Library/Pandoc Resources/Safety custom-reference.docx" pandoc: mermaid-filter: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

This command worked before to do exactly what I expected it to do. Convert MD to DOCX pulling in citations and styling them correctly. I just want to add a diagram.

Do I need to specifiy where the filter is located to pandoc or am I missing something else?

[aklein24]

I came across your comment randomly and decided to reply.

When I'm using this filter, I've had to use the -F filter? Here's the command I'm using:

pandoc -s -t html -F mermaid-filter.cmd -o output/output.html input/test.md 

I think if you add -F before mermaid-filter it will work.

Regardless, hopefully you already figured this out!