pandoc VS sphinx

pandoc

• Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024

  My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.

  I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

• Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024

  This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.

• LaTeX makes me so angry at word
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2024

  Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?

  For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.

• 📓 Versionner et builder l'eBook de son Entretien Annuel d'Evaluation sur Git(Hub)
  7 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2024

  pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)

• Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024

  Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:

  Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.

  Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.

  Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects

  [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-pdfmake

  [2] https://pandoc.org/

• Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
  35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024

  Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.

  [1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

  [2]: https://pandoc.org/

• Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

  Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?

• Pandoc
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024

  I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.

  [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061

• I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
• What Happened to Pandoc-Discuss?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024

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