Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Przemek Dragańczuk
Troff seems to be one of the better options. Luke Smith has some tutorials on using troff and groff here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRe2YeaMjPTKXSc5FqJZ_km For live previewing I suggest zathura instead of mupdf, since zathura automatically refreshes when it detects changes

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Lee Fallat
HTML renderers are vast and somewhat easy to code, depending how far you want to go. After seeing that css4.pub website, it has opened my eyes: why are we doing Markdown at all? If we stick to using tags like header, article, main, div, p, ul/ol/li, and maybe a few others, what more do we really

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 29 Apr 2019 at 02:53:10 PDT Przemek Dragańczuk wrote: Troff seems to be one of the better options. Luke Smith has some tutorials on using troff and groff here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRe2YeaMjPTKXSc5FqJZ_km For live previewing I suggest zathura instead of mupd

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
niedz., 28 kwi 2019 o 21:46 Thomas Meulendijks napisał(a): > > Hi all, > > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > I do this because of a few things, > > - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. > - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of choice > -

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread nsm
If this has (de)evolved into a general sucks less document writing thread, I too would recommend {g,t}roff. Luke Smith’s YouTube series is a good intro for the impatient. OpenBSD’s manpage for roff is an excellent read over coffee: https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Stephen Gregoratto
On 2019-04-29 09:06, Charlie Kester wrote: > And doesn't zathura use poppler, which is bloated and slow compared to > mupdf? Zathura can use mupdf as a PDF/EPUB/XPS backend. -- Stephen Gregoratto PGP: 3FC6 3D0E 2801 C348 1C44 2D34 A80C 0F8E 8BAB EC8B