Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
I would welcome comments (favourable or otherwise) from anyone on the list who has used Pandoc to convert documents between various file formats. In particular, I'm interested in the possibility of using it to write papers in Markdown format (using Pandoc's extensions), then converting them to any of ePub, HTML, PDF (via LaTeX), MS-Word docx/OOXML, ODF, etc.
I recommend sphinx instead. But then, I *hate* markdown.
Pandoc also supports automatic citations and bibliography generation, a highly desirable feature.
I plan to experiment, but, as always, comments from those who have taken this path already would be informative.
I've used pandoc ca. 2011 and its output support is adequate but -- being Haskell -- not very tweakable without HTFS & recompiling. (I haven't upgraded it since then because I *expect* cabal to fall over and leave me without a gitit, and restoring the current state from backup would be boring and time-consuming.) It's reST support was pretty broken (e.g. forget putting a table inside a table), but if you're writing markdown you don't care. It had an optional build dependency on kate (the KDE text editor) plugins, which do the equivalent of pygments in reST -- syntax highlighting for code blocks. Opting out of that saved me significant (like, 90%) disk/CPU time resources when building pandoc.