skylighting
A Haskell syntax highlighting library with tokenizers derived from KDE syntax highlighting descriptions (by jgm)
pandoc
Universal markup converter (by jgm)
| skylighting | pandoc | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 443 | |
| 203 | 36,937 | |
| 2.0% | 2.4% | |
| 7.5 | 9.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Haskell | Haskell | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
skylighting
Posts with mentions or reviews of skylighting.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-23.
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Pygmentising Hakyll's Syntax Highlighting
If anyone wants to try this, the file is here: https://github.com/jgm/skylighting/blob/master/skylighting-core/xml/haskell.xml
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Custom syntax highlighting in quarto doc code chunks
2) Pandoc invokes the skylight Haskell library, which uses XML syntax descriptions to define which tokens/pieces of a given language have which "role". Skylight will parse your code and tag each part of it according to those rules. You can edit those XML files (or create new ones). Check this page for a description of how they work. You'll find the existing KDE XML syntax descriptors here.
pandoc
Posts with mentions or reviews of pandoc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-12.
- Open source and self hostable/private file converter
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Why Is This Site Built with C
I think TFA is unfair wrt pandoc's dependencies. I'm not sure if the listed "ecosystem" is what you need to build pandoc from source, or just the result of shitty packaging of pandoc from the OS package maintainers.
For the record, the .deb download from [1] gives you a 146MB statically linked pandoc executable that depends only on libc6 (>= 2.13), libgmp10, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4).
[1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
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Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines
Another option is Quarto [1]. It's basically a friendly wrapper around Pandoc [2], letting you write in Markdown (+ lots of Quarto-specific extensions) and render to LaTeX, Typst, multi-page HTML, EPUB, docx, and more.
[1] https://quarto.org/
[2] https://pandoc.org/
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Overengineer your CV
The resulting Markdown is passed to pandoc to convert it to HTML
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
To be fair, one there's a good one there's much less incentive to write something new. In this case the good converter is Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/
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How to convert Markdown to PDF
There are a handful of excellent command-line tools, and Pandoc comes to mind. It is not just a one-trick pony, too. With Pandoc you can convert between many different formats.
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Proposed Perl Changes (part 2)
I’ll be using the Template Toolkit to build the site, with a sprinkling of Bootstrap to make it look half-decent. Because there is a lot of Markdown-to-HTML conversion, I’ll use my Template::Provider::Pandoc module which uses Pandoc to convert templates into different formats.
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LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
So happy that it continues to grow in popularity. Draw is probably their best tool in the suite. Also related, people might be interested in using Xournal (https://xournalpp.github.io/) for PDF manipulations and pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) for general document conversion.
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Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
The other ones most people point to are https://pandoc.org and https://shellcheck.net
- How I'm Automating `resume.pdf` creation with Git Hooks and Pandoc
What are some alternatives?
When comparing skylighting and pandoc you can also consider the following projects:
modern-uri - Modern library for working with URIs
pandoc-highlighting-extensions - Extensions to Pandoc syntax highlighting
pretty - Haskell Pretty-printer library
sphinx - implementation of a sphinx client in haskell
hxt-charproperties - Haskell XML Toolbox
kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.