Pandoc Templates

134 points by ankitg12 3 hours ago | 9 comments

ktzar 49 minutes ago |

Pandoc is such an amazing piece of software. I used it to format my novel and made it part of a GitHub action to produce all the formats I required. I wasn't aware of templates, but some look really sleek.

I keep thinking that modern text editors are just flawed and markdown, with all its downsides and limitations, is what 99% is the people need.

maxerickson 3 minutes ago | |

For the short, simple documents that most people make, a versioned, wysiwyg word processor is going to beat everything else.

I mean, they don't want to think about building the output, never mind controlling the process.

thibaut_barrere 47 minutes ago |

Somehow related is https://www.metanorma.org/ (using Markdown to produce norms-compatible outputs).

submeta 46 minutes ago |

I am a heavy user of Pandoc. As I write all my text in markdown using Obsidian, but have to create content for the MS Office environment, I use Pandoc to convert my markdown content into ms office formated content.

I would be lost had I have to use the Office tools to edit and format my text.

So thank you to all the maintainers of Pandoc.

maxerickson 56 seconds ago | |

Basic familiarity with the paragraph styles in Word is like a 20 minute task.

If you are using markdown, you already understand the conceptual basis for it, so you just need to understand how it's implemented over there.

I'm not arguing that it is something you should do, just rolling my eyes at "I would be lost".

ltrg 33 minutes ago | |

I used it to output my doctoral thesis in LaTeX from Markdown 10 years ago, and similarly for going back and forth between my supervisor's Word documents and the main thesis text.

Embarrassingly, a horrible little script for converting Pandoc's Markdown endnotes to inline format remains my most-starred GitHub repo: https://github.com/ltrgoddard/inliner/

ntnsndr 33 minutes ago |

I have been relying on pandoc for many years and had no idea I could use templates like this, which I suppose is pathetic but also indicates just how powerful the defaults are on their own.

raffael_de 1 hour ago |

2 hours, 56 points and not a single comment?

RadiozRadioz 47 minutes ago | |

Perhaps people are quasi-bookmarking it