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Re: Pandoc

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

Numberwang wrote: post #8

I wish they’d fix the md to adoc table conversion issues. Apart from that I love it.

The core problem with Pandoc is that the internal document representation is limited to its particular flavor of Markdown. Any feature PD-MD doesn't support is ignored or loses semantics. You can see this in the poor ReST support (try converting captioned figures). It would be useful to rearchitect it with a Docbook-style semantics internally since they are more comprehensive than Markdown.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by geraldcombs »

shakna wrote: post #10

What don't I use it for? + Static websites from any input to html + Markdown & TeX & References to pdf for academia + Generating manpages for new tools + Generating ebooks ... Let's just say I get a bit lost when it isn't available.

> + Generating manpages for new tools

Do any of your tools use long options (prefixed with a double dash)? If so, make sure you disable the "smart" extension, otherwise you might end up with en dashes.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by disqard »

I like pandoc. I've been using Typora [1] for all of my writing, and it's decent, but a little slow.

What editor do HN folks use? I wonder if there's a leaner editor out there with an equally nice distraction-free editing interface. Thanks in advance!

[1] https://typora.io/

Re: Pandoc

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Post by [deleted] »

dr_coffee wrote: post #18
Schiphol wrote: post #16

I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher 'needs' a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It's just great.

What's your workflow for inserting and managing references

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Re: Pandoc

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Post by flatline »

koolba wrote: post #11

My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Re: Pandoc

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

scentoni wrote: post #24

If you don't want to install Haskell and other dependencies, several folks have developed Docker images for using pandoc: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~ivo/_posts/2015-03-12-repeatable... http://gbraad.nl/blog/document-generation-using-markdown-and... https://github.com/jagregory/pandoc-docker

You could also just download one of the packages from the "Installing" page on the Pandoc web site, which has prebuilt binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Installing a whole Docker image to do this seems like it might be overkill for a lot of uses.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by copperx »

flatline wrote: post #26
koolba wrote: post #11

My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Diff works great in Word.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by heliostatic »

disqard wrote: post #23

I like pandoc. I've been using Typora [1] for all of my writing, and it's decent, but a little slow. What editor do HN folks use? I wonder if there's a leaner editor out there with an equally nice distraction-free editing interface. Thanks in advance! [1] https://typora.io/

I've been really enjoying the Caret beta -- https://caret.io/

Not free, but a real pleasure to use.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by [deleted] »

basementcat wrote: post #20

Maybe I used an older version but my attempts to use pandoc usually resulted in the document being butchered because the internal representation was not as expressive as the source or target formats.

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