Jason White <[email protected]> writes:

> I would welcome comments (favourable or otherwise) from anyone on the list who
> has used Pandoc to convert documents between various file formats. In
> particular, I'm interested in the possibility of using it to write papers in
> Markdown format (using Pandoc's extensions), then converting them to any of
> ePub, HTML, PDF (via LaTeX), MS-Word docx/OOXML, ODF, etc.

I recommend sphinx instead.
But then, I *hate* markdown.

> Pandoc also supports automatic citations and bibliography generation, a highly
> desirable feature.
>
> I plan to experiment, but, as always, comments from those who have taken this
> path already would be informative.

I've used pandoc ca. 2011 and its output support is adequate but --
being Haskell -- not very tweakable without HTFS & recompiling.

(I haven't upgraded it since then because I *expect* cabal to fall over
and leave me without a gitit, and restoring the current state from
backup would be boring and time-consuming.)

It's reST support was pretty broken (e.g. forget putting a table inside
a table), but if you're writing markdown you don't care.

It had an optional build dependency on kate (the KDE text editor)
plugins, which do the equivalent of pygments in reST -- syntax
highlighting for code blocks.  Opting out of that saved me significant
(like, 90%) disk/CPU time resources when building pandoc.

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