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Re: Pandoc
#2Love this, been using it for years to write markdown as a base and then transform to html or pdf using latex for maths.
Re: Pandoc
#3Pandoc is a great cli tool in terms of its UI and code quality.
An interesting fact is that its creator is John MacFarlane, a Philosopher [0]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacFarlane_(philosopher...
Re: Pandoc
#4As is generally the case, there are official docker images readily available and it's a fantastically light, low-coupling way of adding conversion to a stack.
Recently rewrote a content stack to use Markdown (among other formats) for the source, the file system as the database, generating outputs (including HTML with embedded Mathjax LATEX) via pandoc, and it works absolutely brilliantly. Fully recommend.
Re: Pandoc
#5This is one of the most useful programs that I use.
I use it for turning .md files into .html or .pdf.
I use it for creating slides with it.
I even use it for fixing the hard-wrapped text I write in vim before sending emails. When I write in vim, I prefer the text to be hard-wrapped, but for emails, I like it better when the text is not wrapped. I recommend arp242's essay explaining the problem with hard-wrapping [1], but basically the way I workaround this problem is using a local script which uses pandoc at some point [2].
Overall, pandoc is really good.
[1]: https://www.arp242.net/email-wrapping.html
[2]: https://github.com/kugurerdem/dotfiles/blob/2d68357273e1bc30...
Re: Pandoc
#6Pandoc is one of my favourite all time tools. As the website says:
> If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife
It also sits at the heart of Quarto[0], which adds Jupyter-like code execution (in R, Python and others) into document production. Combined with RStudio as an IDE, it's my new favourite way to write anything - from static documents to full on code notebooks.
No affiliation with Posit, the company behind Quarto & RStudio. Just a happy user.
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[0]: https://quarto.org/
Re: Pandoc
#7I wrote pretty much all my university work in Markdown with inline Latex, using Pandoc to generate a pdf. I'm sure there are things you can do in "pure" latex that you can't do this way, but for most normal cases, it's so much easier. You just use the simple Markdown syntax for basic text formatting, and then can use the power of Latex when you need to display mathematics, graphs, tables or similar.
Re: Pandoc
#8Worth noting that the author has also created a markup language, djot.
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#9I tried to use it to make an invoice system:
wanted to convert plain-text CSV (description,amount,cost) --> to Markdown tables --> to PDF.
But I was unable to align the following 2nd table with taxes: cells are all over the place and it does whatever it wants. And there is no information online to be found about it.
(I eventually gave up long time ago and still to this day manually do them in LibreOffice Writer adding taxes with a calculator)
Except this, it's a really neat piece of FOSS software!
Re: Pandoc
#10As is generally the case, there are official docker images readily available and it's a fantastically light, low-coupling way of adding conversion to a stack. Recently rewrote a content stack to use Markdown (among other formats) for the source, the file system as the database, generating outputs (including HTML with embedded Mathjax LATEX) via pandoc, and it works absolutely brilliantly. Fully recommend.
Why do you use the docker image instead of just the normal executable?