patat VS pandoc

Patat (https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat) supports any Pandoc input including Markdown, plus it allows embedding snippets with execution result and even images in supported terminals.

I’m a big fan of patat for last-minute presentations, it converts markdown to slideshows with support for syntax highlighting, images, bullet points, etc.

Anyone looking at this, have a look at pandoc that really is a great tool. Much more control and of course free.

Binary is available on Github. You of course need Latex deps but besides that everything just works on Arch.

There’s a package on that repository called pandoc-bin (link) which contains the binary executable of pandoc without needing its massive dependency list. Rather than compiling it and it’s dependencies manually, it just pulls the latest release from the pandoc GitHub, and installs the statically-compiled binary. The PKGBUILD shows you exactly how it’s done.

The work done in redisplay_internal went down significantly but still sits pretty high in big files such as https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/src/Text/Pandoc/Parsing/General.hs

If you're migrating your documentation project from one markup to another, you'll want to know about projects like Pandoc. If your build process includes a process to convert markup, Pandoc can be run with GitHub Actions. If you're planning on converting Asciidoc files to Markdown, you'll have to take a detour via the XML route. The proces will be: Asciidoc ---> XML ---> Markdown.

In my first two weeks, I found almost everything confusing. I had not interacted with Latex and Pandoc that much before. Given R is an older programming language and the code was written long ago, syntax was different for some elements and I had to learn what some things mean, how they were done before and how they are done now. The good thing is, as human beings one of our super powers is to learn, adapt to change and . That has really helped me throughout the internship till now.

The programming challenge I think would be to write a converter from marxist.org html to markdown or org-mode. I was thinking of pandoc with a lua filter (see also) for marxist.org html unfortunately my lua is terrible.

Not the author but it seems that the site was made using Quarto [1] which uses pandoc [2] behind the scenes for producing the final output. The pandoc website suggests EPUB is possible.

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/authoring/text-editor.ht...

[2] https://pandoc.org/