MultiMarkdown-4

I had the exact same problem on an Ubuntu server at work. Since I don't have root access, I was forced to compile from source. I gave up when I couldn't compile Cabal. My solution was Multimarkdown 4 [1]. It supports many basic Pandoc features I need (tables, etc.). Exports to HTML and PDF. Since it is written in C, the compilation was straight forward. 10 minutes later, my document is ready. Couldn't have been happier. [1]: https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-4

Is there a formal grammar defined? I don't see one here. They mention peg-markdown which does use a formal grammar - or at least, multimarkdown does, which is the one I've looked at. Here's the link to MultiMarkdown's grammar: https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-4/blob/master/pars... It's littered with implementation code, but with this stripped out it would make a good basis from which people can write parser generators from (that don't depend on the specific implementation details of MultiMarkdown's internal representation). As far as I'm concerned, a formal definition should be an absolute requirement for any official spec. The "spec" as presented simply looks like a large collection of examples, informally specified in prose. What's really needed is a grammar you can use for parser generators, corresponding to a schema for an ob