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. 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.
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.
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. I prefer markdown to rest anyway. It can include maths / formulae reasonably well from memory. On 19 January 2015 at 05:33, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
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.
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.
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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.
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