#pandoc

[andmaybegayer]

Pandoc, the near-universal document conversion tool, implemented in wasm and running purely on your computer in the browser. If you need to convert a document between formats and you don't have a tailor-made tool, this is probably the best way to do it. If you were using some dubious adware website to do it it was probably just using pandoc in the background so this just cuts out the privacy nightmare.

[snarp]

Pandoc's MD-to-HTML can handle mid-word italics marked with a *, but not with a _

[fyeahnix]

ever since I started programming like 10 years ago (dont look at me like that I don't do any scripting with powershell this was a one-off lmfao) and watching other people program, I've become a meticulous notetaker. helps a lot with the ADHD. I do a lot of random shit at random times and I can't hold all of it in my brain, so I write it the fuck doooowwwnn.

I wanted to finally start moving my writing from Docs to Ellipsus and needed to convert the files. found a script online because I'm fucking lazy but had to rework it a bit because I wasn't getting what I expected initially. anyway, I'm not gonna remember that shit afterwards so what do you do?? write. it. down.

[snugglesquiggle]

doing something wonky and i forgot pandoc doesn't let you nest footnotes cleanly (you can only nest them at all if you're using the nonstandard inline footnotes extension)

breaks my heart to admit it but a wysiwyg editor might offer a better ux than this

[alchemist-project]

"I thought I’d share how I use Vim to write prose, in case it might be useful to someone else. Also it would be great to hear about how other people do the same thing. There are many different ways this could be done, so I will take some time to motivate my choices. But I will not discuss why I am using Vim for this in the first place."

-- Albin Olsson

[pandcoclothing]

www.pand.co

[eatsleepmath]

Exporting TeX to HTML+MathJax

As I mentioned in my previous post about integrating Emacs into my workflow, I used to draft TeX-heavy posts for this blog in an eatsleepmath.org org-mode file and then export to TeX and HTML by either using org-mode’s native exporting (though recent versions of Emacs have significantly altered how its LaTeX export works) or by using pandoc to convert .org -> .tex -> .html.

However, I was using an extremely outdated version of pandoc, and when I reinstalled it earlier today I found out pandoc’s creator jgm pushed a bewildering change to pandoc’s LaTeX macro expansions: it wraps any expanded macro in an extra set of curly braces, apparently because users are expected to not enclose arguments passed to macros in braces.

To get around this, I found out about the helpful python script de-macro, which is included in texlive. (Instructions in this tex.se answer: here.)

Pandoc still works fine as long as it doesn’t have to expand macros, so now I just expand macros separately and then export to html.

In a simple bash script, which I used to make the next post:

#!/bin/bash clear echo "Enter the path of the TeX source file you need converted to HTML." read fullpath filename=$(basename $fullpath) noextfilename="${filename%.*}" cp $fullpath ~/.pandoc/ cd ~/.pandoc/ de-macro $filename sudo pandoc $noextfilename"-clean.tex" -s --mathjax -o $noextfilename".html" sudo chmod 644 $noextfilename".html" & sudo chown $USER $noextfilename".html" xdg-open $noextfilename".html" & exit

[alchemist-project]

Building books with Markdown using pandoc – Programmers — Developers – Medium

Create epubs with pandoc using markdown syntax — painlessly.

A short article explaining how to produce an ebook from Markdown.