pandoc-plot

Babel sounds awesome, I should give it a try. I've been using Pandoc for my static site, which I also used for my PhD thesis. I wrote pandoc-plot[0] to render figures in documents like the author does, inspired by Matplotlib's plot-directive[1]. I feel like this feature is a must for technical writing, but getting the details right is tricky! [0]: https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot [1]: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/sphinxext_plot_directive_a...

I created a Pandoc filter to render some code blocks into figures for my PhD thesis. This is nice because one does not have to manage text and figures separately. https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot

With pandoc-plot [0] you can even include them in your markdown documents and render it all to a nice PDF or website using pandoc. [0] https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot

That's great news. I've been waiting for years for a dedicated 'Figure' element. The workaround was pretty brittle. It'll make pandoc-plot [0] easier to maintain as well. [0]: https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot

That's the perfect learning project because there's something tangible at the end. Whenever the question of "How do I learn Haskell" comes up, I always suggest to come up with a project that would be useful on its own, regardless of the technology used to create it, and use Haskell to do it. In my case it was a pandoc filter to embed plots in documents (https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot), which was ultimately useful to create my PhD dissertation. There's only so much you can learn about Haskell by working through toy examples.

One thing I love about pandoc that I don't see mentioned here is the ability to apply filters to transform documents mid-conversion. I'm using Pandoc to write my PhD thesis at the moment, from Markdown source, using certain filters to "augment" what Markdown can do. Examples: https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot https://github.com/lierdakil/pandoc-crossref More info here: https://pandoc.org/filters.html

Tangentially related: I've been working on a plotting tool (https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot) that supports many plotting toolkits. I recently added support for Plots.jl. I can't believe how SLOW it is to get from running a script to getting output. 10x slower than matplotlib, 100x slower than Gnuplot.

How convenient, I just added graphviz support to my Pandoc filter, pandoc-plot. It renders graphviz code blocks into graphs (also works with other plotting toolkits). https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot