Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Pandoc consists of a set of readers and writers. When converting a > document from one format to another, text is parsed by a reader into > pandoc’s intermediate representation of the document—an “abstract syntax > tree” or AST—which is then converted by the writer into the target > format. The pandoc AST format is defined in the module > |Text.Pandoc.Definition| in pandoc-types > <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-types>. > > A “filter” is a program that modifies the AST, between the reader and > the writer: > > |INPUT --reader--> AST --filter--> AST --writer--> OUTPUT| > > Filters are “pipes” that read from standard input and write to standard > output.
Perhaps just reading the original Pier and Magritte thesis work by Lukas Renggli would be helpful then. Anything new or better in Pandoc? Stephan
