Tennessee Leeuwenburg <tleeuwenburg@gmail.com> wrote:
I used it once. It has attractive and pleasing PDF output which was a goal for me. I was very happy. It depends on latex packages, which means it's a very big footprint on disk if that's a factor for you.
It would be a factor for some people, no doubt, but fortunately not for me, as I write and have written LaTeX, hence have it installed as a matter of course.
I prefer markdown to rest anyway. It can include maths / formulae reasonably well from memory.
Pandoc has useful Markdown extensions. What I'm essentially looking for is a means of writing structured documents in a text editor, then converting to various formats (ePub, HTML, word processor formats, etc.). LaTeX is not ideal for this, though tex4ht helps to some extent. I'm also in need of the bibliography support. Over the weekend I converted several MS-Word (docx) files to HTML via Pandoc as an experiment. This conversion gave the cleanest output from MS-Word documents that I've ever encountered. It did so by removing almost all of the formatting, while respecting heading styles, lists, emphasis etc.