pandocfilters

I've been an extensive Pandoc user and wrote my thesis, website, etc. on Markdown. However, extending it was hard, as you either had to a) learn haskell, or b) learn the Pandoc internals in order to use pandocfilters [1]. To solve this, I wrote Panflute, a Python package that allows anyone to extend Pandoc's Markdown with a bit of Python code. You can use it for simple stuff such as creating tables of contents, or more advanced stuff like CSV tables [2], output from external programs [3] (so you can fetch online data), and many things. It's Pythonic, open source [4], and hopefully useful if you like Markdown :) [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters [2] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#yaml-code-b... [3] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#calling-ext... [4] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/panflute

Pandoc doesn't have an "include" feature, but it's easy enough to add this with a preprocessor. See http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/how-i-stop.... Pandoc does provide a way to link to section headings, but it doesn't yet have a generic system for autogenerating numbers and producing references to these, like LaTeX's \label{} and \ref{}. It does, however, have a system for creating running example lists: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#numbered-exampl.... This can be used for numbering equations and referring back to them, but it is considerably less flexible than LaTeX. Pandoc has extensive support for automatic citations using CSL stylesheets: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#citations. BibTeX and BibLaTeX files can be used as the database, or YAML citations can be included in the markdown d