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…so those features aren't hit when converting via Pandoc. sys.inputs makes that very easy https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/11588 The books in question: https://thelabofthought.co/shop

comment by raybb · 2026-06-15 · in Typst 0.15.0

…by data scientists the world over. The python wrapper for pandoc has 16 million downloads[2]. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc [2]: https://pypi.org/project/pandoc/

comment by apnorton · 2026-05-24 · in Markdown Is Not LaTeX

…Typst, all done client-side [2]. Furthermore, you get .docx and other output formats as well [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.9 [2]: https://pandoc.org/app/

comment by LuttelBurchtje · 2026-05-08 · in The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

There's an Obsidian extension for Pandoc so you can convert your Obsidian notes to any other format. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11135 There are a number of basic errors in this report, but since it's LLM-written I suppose I shall…

comment by kepano · 2026-04-09 · in Potential Markdown Data Loss When You Will Move Away from Obsidian

From the pandoc release announcement: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/3.9 : > Starting with this release, pandoc can be compiled to WASM, making it possible to use pandoc in the browser. A full-featured GUI interface is provided at…

comment by westurner · 2026-02-12 · in Pandoc in the Browser with WASM

…so I use that to create a docx (which Draft2Digital converts to epub). I even opened a few issues ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%2... ) for pandoc support and they were almost all resolved pretty quickly. [0]:…

comment by raybb · 2025-10-24 · in Typst 0.14

…But wouldn't recommend going via Pandoc, for example for this reason: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions/10438 Some things like #show rules can be a bit confusing. And obviously LLMs can't really help you.

comment by mbanerjeepalmer · 2025-09-27 · in Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

…open. Overall, a very positive experience. Book: https://thelabofthought.co/shop/p/nbmi3 Bugs: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3A...

comment by raybb · 2025-09-27 · in Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

…linked pandoc executable that depends only on libc6 (>= 2.13), libgmp10, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4). [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases

comment by m000 · 2025-03-30 · in Why is this site built with C

…for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061

comment by drojas · 2024-02-02 · in Pandoc

…https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv https://academ.us/article/2111.15588/ (powered by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc I believe)

comment by isaacfung · 2023-12-22 · in ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

…guy saying in July of 2014 he expected pandoc's asciidoc frontend to be done in a "few months": https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456#issuecomment-50805...

comment by nonameiguess · 2023-10-22 · in Using AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor for Blogging

For instance, pandoc is written in Haskell: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by ykonstant · 2023-08-13 · in The Meaning of Monad in MonadTrans

You could do it with Pandoc ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc ), it supports both Latex and Typst as input and output formats, and can use either as a PDF engine.

comment by velcrovan · 2023-07-31 · in LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)

If you need a more featureful alternative to textutils, look for pandoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by atarv · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about

…me I was smart enough to understand and modify real world software I did not build myself. [0] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by osener · 2023-06-18 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?

…is great for writing, but don't try to auto-generate it; e.g. pandoc still can't correctly do so: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2337 Note that Asciidoctor (the Ruby implementation) has a reasonable solution now, but it's not…

comment by aidenn0 · 2023-02-06 · in I wish Asciidoc was more popular

…the package pandoc-cli installs the pandoc binary [1], so it shouldn't beak that many scripts. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/535bd0393fe7b2f287903b942...

comment by y04nn · 2023-01-19 · in Pandoc 3.0

changelog: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/changelog.md

comment by spindle · 2023-01-18 · in Pandoc 3.0 Released

I bet pandoc [1] is even more successful, in the sense of pretty wide use. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by nine_k · 2022-12-11 · in Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]

…approach is to use Pandoc, but no one has yet merged a plain TeX writer into the Pandoc repo ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4341 — I was briefly interested a couple of years ago, and may look into it again: it doesn't seem like a…

comment by svat · 2022-10-10 · in LaTeX Makes Me Angry

…a blog generator https://github.com/input-output-hk - the Cardano blockchain and Daedalus wallet https://github.com/jgm/pandoc - Universal markup converter (already mentioned above) https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat - secure…

comment by simonmic · 2022-06-09 · in Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell

…converters like pandoc I don't think Pandoc knows anything about the PDF format. It can't read it https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re... or write it https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Wr... .…

comment by chrisseaton · 2022-05-04 · in Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?

…purposes) since the code base is in Haskell [1]. I would prefer something more Python-like. [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re...

comment by auraham · 2021-12-04 · in Ask HN: Learning how to convert Markdown to HTML

There are Pandoc binary releases for Arm64. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases But it looks like this was before that (didn't have the 2020 when I read it).

comment by IshKebab · 2021-07-29 · in M4 as a templating language (2020)

…that supports a large number of input/output document formats in varying degrees of completeness: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by tpmx · 2021-05-13 · in Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

…| grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")') curl -sLo "pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${VERSION}/pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" apt-get -y install "./pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" The Github API

comment by stonesweep · 2021-04-22 · in Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc

…instead of apt to download Pandoc and Calibre? You should be able to replace all this: !wget https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/2.11.3.2/pandoc-2.11.3.2-1-amd64.deb !sudo dpkg -i pandoc-2.11.3.2-1-amd64.deb !apt install…

comment by progval · 2021-04-22 · in Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc

…that is built with pandoc to be described, made available, and released under the same license. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/COPYRIGHT

comment by RandomWorker · 2021-01-19 · in NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels

…another (from one type to another type), like pandoc [1], which indeed is written in Haskell. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by Jenz · 2021-01-09 · in Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/User-contributed-template... for more

comment by asicsp · 2020-11-27 · in Pandoc for TeXnicians [pdf]

…markdown as a commented CSV format. The only nuisance is that a table can't yet have attributes — https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6317 — the workaround being a pre-filter to copy them from a surrounding div. I've also toyed with using…

comment by kps · 2020-10-25 · in Pandoc – A universal document converter

…come up with something that's just right for your needs, without all the bells and whistles. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by hazbo · 2019-11-23 · in Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?

…haskell utilities, and see if you feel Haskell is a good fit? I'm honestly not certain myself. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re...

comment by e12e · 2019-10-06 · in Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language

…widescreen template included with Pandoc and attempts to use other templates caused me to encounter https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5402 . The resulting .pptx files won't open in Keynote, either, but luckily they did open in Google…

comment by jaymcgavren · 2019-05-09 · in Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily

…very supportive community. See http://pandoc.org/CONTRIBUTING.html and for good first issues: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+... Finally, a great feature, that hasn't been mentioned here, is pandoc filters.…

comment by mb2100 · 2018-08-28 · in Pandoc

although the version in the default repo is usually quite old. You can grab a binary from https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest

comment by mb2100 · 2018-08-28 · in Pandoc

There is useful discussion on the issue regarding Asciidoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456

comment by adzm · 2018-08-27 · in Pandoc

…formats. How does this relate to a discussion on the relevance of parser generators / libraries? https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc

comment by bd82 · 2017-10-17 · in Ohm: Parsing Made Easy

…Everything else in the template file stays there. You can view the Pandoc html5 default here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/data/templates/def...

comment by bachmeier · 2017-08-14 · in Why I do not like Hugo

…that is more flexible than Pandoc. You can see some discussion of supporting Kramdown in pandoc. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2711 Generally I think pandoc is the more mature tool, but I can see places where it might be a better…

comment by bitexploder · 2017-03-10 · in Kramdown – A Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown

…that this editor can do, but it's still in early beta stages, should anyone care to try it. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168 [2]: http://pandoc.org/ [3]: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ [4]:…

comment by thangalin · 2017-02-04 · in Foolproof HTML

…from markdown.pl to Pandoc and encountered some problems, one of which remains an open issue ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1841 ): https://twitter.com/arntzenius/status/745946799836381184 A telling comment on that github issue is…

comment by rntz · 2016-12-20 · in Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code

…at the University of California, Berkeley. It's written in Haskell. [0] http://pandoc.org/ [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

comment by 0xmohit · 2016-07-23 · in Category Theory for the Sciences

…leaps for me. > First of all, there is no documentation. Now I can't take the author seriously. * https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki * http://pandoc.org/README.html I'm not saying it's the most obvious tool to use - but with some digging I…

comment by nadams · 2015-06-14 · in How to write a book in Emacs

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456 .

comment by fiddlosopher · 2015-03-15 · in A Scholarly Markdown

…containers (Div and Span) hasn't been implemented yet but the discussion is fairly mature now: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/1791

comment by aaren · 2015-03-15 · in A Scholarly Markdown

…been some convergence in the last 2/3 years though. Second: The PR for image attributes is here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/1806 There isn't a PR for internal referencing yet because the implementation hasn't been worked out yet…

comment by aaren · 2015-03-15 · in A Scholarly Markdown

…going on for quite a while though - hence people making forks. Discussion on internal referencing: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/813 Discussion on image attributes: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/261

comment by aaren · 2015-03-14 · in A Scholarly Markdown

…Pandoc can be compiled into a standalone binary. The Windows build on https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases is 17.1MB and the Debian package in Wheezy is 18.9MB with reasonable-looking dependencies. The scripts I've written (Pa

comment by chriswarbo · 2014-10-14 · in Show HN: “Active Code” in Markdown