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pandoc
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jgm / pandoc
pandoc
Universal markup converter
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I really hope that they borrow a lot if not everything from pandoc[1]. My only real complaint with pandoc is the table formatting, but I think fiddlosopher is adding org-mode…
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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4 sourcesROrodw·Nov 19, 2012
If you install pandoc [1] you can write in Markdown (or any of a number of formats) and publish in LaTeX, PDF, RTF, HTML etc.
It's the bee's knees.
(You may want to tweak the default template (some examples are linked at [2]) to improve the default LaTeX rendering.)
[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
[2] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-Extras
In German council ditching OpenOffice to go back to MicrosoftI really hope that they borrow a lot if not everything from pandoc[1]. My only real complaint with pandoc is the table formatting, but I think fiddlosopher is adding org-mode like table support.
If you have not taken a pandoc for a spin I highly recommend you do so soon. In addition to being a great markdown dialect the pandoc tool set is the swiss army knife of text formatting. It is amazing how many formats pandoc can read and/or write.
[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
EDIT: I spoke too soon, Fiddlosopher continues to impress. I just checked the open issues and a little less than a month ago he added "limited org-table support." Based off of the rest of pandoc "limited" probably means something like 85% to 95% :)
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/519
In The Future of MarkdownApparently wikipedia's format is a pain to parse. I think jgm posts here as fiddlosopher he is the best source for the gory details...
But there is definitely sufficient motivation just google "convert wikipedia to" for some examples. I think that the arcane syntax is a big lockin factor with large wikipedia based sites...
There is a ticket for it: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/388
In Write Unix manpages in Markdown with md2manThere is a detailed comparison of pandoc and multimarkdown here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-vs-Multimarkdown.
In The Markdown Mindset