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Re: Pandoc

#11

Post by sureglymop »

Has anyone had success with running pandoc in a browser/compiling it to webassembly?

I haven't had time to look into it a lot but I think that would be amazing.

Re: Pandoc

#12

Post by furiousteabag »

I really like using pandoc as a build system [1] for my personal website to convert .md to .html. I can use templates, automatically generate a table of content and run some lua scripts to get the desired result, such as clickable headers.

[1]: https://github.com/furiousteabag/asmirnov.xyz/blob/master/bu...

Re: Pandoc

#13

Post by jddj »

malloc-0x90 wrote: post #9

I 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 addin…

Maybe you could use html as an intermediate point instead of markdown. Might give you more control over the layout.

Might have to use a headless chromium wrapper (maybe pandoc has this anyway) to then get to pdf but that may not be too bad

Re: Pandoc

#16

Post by wiredfool »

malloc-0x90 wrote: post #9

I 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 addin…

I just recently put together something for invoices that wound up being Jinja2 + data -> HTML-> weasyprint -> pdf. Was quite straight forward, all in all.

Re: Pandoc

#17

Post by dfc »

macintux wrote: post #8

Worth noting that the author has also created a markup language, djot. https://github.com/jgm/djot

Prof. MacFarlane is also one of the commonmark maintainers.

Re: Pandoc

#18

Post by uhoh-itsmaciek »

fforflo wrote: post #3

Pandoc 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...

And a damn fine bluegrass fiddler [0]!

[0]: https://www.whiskeybrothers.net/wb_bios.html

Re: Pandoc

#19

Post by actionfromafar »

malloc-0x90 wrote: post #9

I 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 addin…

I use pandoc quite often - but I wish the intermediate, internal pandoc format was a little more expressive, exactly for things like this. I also tried making an invoice.

Re: Pandoc

#20

Post by on_the_train »

Every couple of years I need pandoc for some project. And teach time I relearn the same idiosyncrasies. Some odd defaults, the sometimes annoying depths you have to do to customize HTML templates, the weird filter infrastructure. What a neat strange program it is.
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