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pandoc-sidenote
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Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark
I can’t imagine the intended audience being so wide as to include a goal of “replacing Markdown as the default on GitHub.”
Instead, this project appeals to me as someone who’s already “bought in” to the pandoc ecosystem. Pandoc makes it really easy to write filters[1] and to take the same source file to generate web pages[2], Reveal.js presentations, Beamer presentations, and long-form PDFs[3]. As someone who writes most things in Markdown compiled via pandoc, I see the cracks in the edges all too often, but I’m too stubborn to give up markdown or any of the tools I’ve built up around pandoc and pandoc markdown. I could absolutely see there come a day where I find some last straw where I can’t get done with pandoc Markdown what I need to get done, and djot seems like it would at least be a contender. I’m sure there are many pundits here would chime in and say “just use Asciidoc,” but every time I look at a syntax quick reference, I get about halfway down the page before thinking “nah, this looks too foreign, I don’t want something that diverges this far from Markdown.”
Djot deviates in annoying ways from Markdown, but not as many and so it’d be an easier pill to swallow for the narrow audience of people like me who want something mostly similar to Markdown that works well with pandoc and avoids the most common syntactic oddities of Markdown.
[1] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-sidenote
[2] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-css-theme
[3] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-starter
djot
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
I know this doesn't solve your problem directly, but I recommend people to try out Djot[0], a markup language from the author of CommonMark.
Djot has a single well-defined spec, and most of the basic formatting has the same syntax as (a) Markdown, so switching is pretty painless. It has as a main goal to be legible and visually aesthetic as-is, just like Markdown.
What Djot adds is its _predictability_. Nested formatting, precedence order, line breaks behavior, nested blocks, mixed inline and block formatting, custom attributes are all laid out precisely in the spec in a thought-out manner. Till this day I still can't remember how to put line break within a list item in Markdown (and I'm sure there're more than one way).
[0]: https://djot.net/
- Pandoc 3.1.12 Released
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Pandoc
Worth noting that the author has also created a markup language, djot.
https://github.com/jgm/djot
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Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces
Every time I see people doing something with Markdown, I wish they just replace it with support for Djot[0] instead. It is a Markdown alternative by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark that fixes all of the most egregious mistakes, while being legible and visually pleasant as-is. It is also syntactically similar to Markdown, which should ease adoption.
[0] https://github.com/jgm/djot
- Djot is a light markup syntax
- Beyond Markdown
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HELP!!! Stuck forever
Are you using markdown? It might make sense to look at 'djot' as well: https://djot.net/; it's a new 'light' markup language conceived as a successor to commonmark; development is led by none other than John McFarlane (author of pandoc, & also led commonmark standardization) Djot makes it really easy to attach arbitrary attributes to block elements as well as inline elements; and the parser records source positions in the output -- all of which makes it really convenient keeping track of elements changing position or value.
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Is there a way to send data from neovim in real-time to other applications? Want to create a neovim qmk bridge.
I have a simple script that sends a djot buffer (https://github.com/jgm/djot) to the parser, if there's a change, on the CursorHold event.
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wiki.vim v0.6 is released
Since you mentioned you were considering moving to CommonMark, have you had time to look into Djot (also by jpm)? Djot is meant to be easier to parse, and I'm planning to write a tree-sitter grammar for it.
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Typst, a modern LaTeX alternative written in Rust, is now open source
Another recent development here is https://djot.net/ (by the pandoc author). It indeed thoroughly solves both:
What are some alternatives?
tufte-pandoc-css - Starter files for using Pandoc Markdown with Tufte CSS
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
emanote - Emanate a structured view of your plain-text notes
mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
pandoc - Universal markup converter
Zato - ESB, SOA, REST, APIs and Cloud Integrations in Python
pandoc-include - An include filter for Pandoc
scroll - Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown.
pandoc-markdown-css-theme - CSS files and a template for using Pandoc to generate standalone HTML files
pdfsyntax - A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file
pandoc-starter - 📄 My pandoc markdown templates and makefiles
pdfquery - A fast and friendly PDF scraping library.