The latest website I was asked to build is just Pandoc + Make. It works super well, it's very fast and decently flexible. I even do blog-like processing by just calling Pandoc several times.
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#92I recently switched to Pandoc to parse my Markdown documents for my blog. Up until then I used the original Perl script. It’s not slower and I get syntax highlighting for my code snippets. My only regret is not switching sooner.
Maybe one day I’ll write a blazing fast Markdown parser that does exactly what I want, full control and maximum simplicity and all that. In all probability though, I won’t. I really like what little I have seen from Pandoc.
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#93This 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]…
While pandoc is certainly a very useful tool, don't you think it's overkill to call a 143MB (on my Linux system) pandoc executable to do word (un)wrapping?
Emacs has `fill-paragraph` built in and `unfill-paragraph` is a short function definition [1]. Both work across multiple paragraphs.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. And how do you send and read emails? Mutt?
I used to use Mutt, but now I don't because my email has its own special domain, and the email hosting service I use doesn't let me export IMAP and POP3 details unless I pay them. Currently, I just open vim in the terminal, write what I need, then copy the text. I open dmenu using a shortcut, type something like "unwr", which is sufficient for selecting the "unwrap-clipboard" script of mine, press enter, which unwrap…
I had a script that piped to curl to send, Mail.app for downloading via POP and Vim to read/write, but I gave up and ended up copy/pasting as well.
Someday I may try that again, if email is still relevant by then. Vim and email would be my perfect set up.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you. People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly". Writing any markup or markdown syntax in an IDE is a disaster for the creative process. Jack Kerouac used to type…
Most tech people who use Word know how to use it and that is exactly the problem. We don't have the benefit of ignorance. We send off drafts to someone for commenting or editing and get an inconsistently formatted mess back because others don't even know that styles exist and use manual / direct formatting instead. We are the ones that have to suffer because people we are forced to collaborate with do not take 5 minu…
Is there a way to lock documents in some way, so that direct formatting is disallowed and only styles work? Not that we could truly lock a document, but at least having some sort of header that lists allowed features, such that one would get a warning whenever they veered off course?
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#96I used Pandoc recently to convert a large Word document into markdown. It took a lot of babysitting and manual tweaking to get to the final result. Overall it probably still saved me time compared to doing the conversion manually, but only just. YMMV.
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#97Pandoc is amazing. I think of it kind of like ffmpeg for text files...
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#98I love Pandoc. I wish the python library were a little more accessible.
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I'll probably lose some nerd cred: I do most of my writing in MS word, I find it easier to cut and paste and add footnotes and section headers. And then I use Pandoc to convert the docx into the format I want, usually HTML*. I used to do markdown in vim but I found that for most of what I do I prefer word. I do write code in vim... * I use this css file when converting: https://gist.github.com/killercup/5917178
I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you. People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly". Writing any markup or markdown syntax in an IDE is a disaster for the creative process. Jack Kerouac used to type…
> My most favoritest feature so far is that it converts tables AND equations to markdown and latex perfectly.
You might be interested in Texmacs [1]. It is has a wysiwyg interface, and it handles nicely tables and mathematical equations. Also you can export documents to the latex format.
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#100This 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]…
While pandoc is certainly a very useful tool, don't you think it's overkill to call a 143MB (on my Linux system) pandoc executable to do word (un)wrapping? Emacs has `fill-paragraph` built in and `unfill-paragraph` is a short function definition [1]. Both work across multiple paragraphs. [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnfillParagraph
Nice point! I agree that it's a bloated method, however, this was the best solution I could come up with at that point of time. I am certain that there are better solutions, it's just me who could not find it. I went with this solution anyways since it was still an improvement compared to my previous method in vim which involved setting the text width to a large number like 9999, highlighting the text I wanted to unwrap and then typing 'gqq' for formatting, and then yanking it. And of course, I had to re-wrap the text if I wanted to maintain the original format of the text file.
You are absolutely right and I understand what you mean though. I am open to trying other alternatives and I should try to come up with a better method to workaround this problem.
Never tried Emacs, just went with Vim so far. Did not know that Emacs had already an elegant solution for this problem. Nice! :)