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Pandoc
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#142the svg on the side of their page is kind of hilarious
though I've used this program too in the past to seamlessly convert html to text to easily import into a database...
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#143Pandoc is amazing. I think of it kind of like ffmpeg for text files...
great analogy
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#144This 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]…
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
Process over Tools.
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#146Earlier 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…
> It is the equivalent of seeing somebody use right-click to copy-paste
What would you prefer, instead? CTRL-C, CTRL-V? SHIFT-INS, CTRL-INS? some vim incantation?
As a select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste guy, seeing people use these inferior alternatives looks extremely annoying to me.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Don't think such fine grained control exists. There is read only mode[1], which (I assume) limits the reader to only comment.
[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-a-document-r...
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#148This 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]…
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
you managed to find a lean way to go docx to pdf using pandoc ? last time i tried it required a whole latex stack behind it.
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#149A question to experienced Pandoc users: I want to write a small book that I want to generate in 3 formats: HTML pages, EPUB and PDF. What is the best input format (source format) for the book? Pandoc Markdown? CommonMark? GFM? I'm a little hesitant to committing myself to Pandoc Markdown or any Markdown because they all have tiny differences with each other. Each is like its own standard. I considered Org-mode for so…
I've translated HTML markup to Markdown, and from Markdown to LaTeX before fine-tuning the LaTeX, to produce PDFs for printing hard-cover books. Does Markdown have any way to specify eg "begin a chapter on a new page" ? I don't think this is really a thing in Markdown or HTML but I'm admittedly a casual Pandoc user.
If you are writing a book, presumably you would have each chapter in a separate markdown file.
So, then you convert each chapter file to pdf, and then join the pdfs.
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#150A question to experienced Pandoc users: I want to write a small book that I want to generate in 3 formats: HTML pages, EPUB and PDF. What is the best input format (source format) for the book? Pandoc Markdown? CommonMark? GFM? I'm a little hesitant to committing myself to Pandoc Markdown or any Markdown because they all have tiny differences with each other. Each is like its own standard. I considered Org-mode for so…
Like others above, I write long form in Word/docx and convert with pandoc. Word supports styles that help experiment document-wide with look, it has an outline mode that helps with re-organizing material, and it handles inline media gracefully. Any of that is painful in markdown. There's no way I would write 20-500 page document without Word.
I use markdown for the 90% of my writing that is blurbs (and parse it into something like a graph/knowledge kb, and often render via pandoc to pdf, word, Anki, and html).
In both cases, I restrict myself to using features that can be parsed.