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Title: Make doc, Pandoc?
Post by: DiTBho on November 30, 2020, 01:24:57 pm

I need to create some good html and pdf files, and found this (https://pandoc.org) tool.

Never tried it yet, just looked at its source code and examples.
It's written in Haskell. Examples look very very interesting.

Title: Re: Make doc, Pandoc?
Post by: edy on November 30, 2020, 11:10:59 pm

Thanks for sharing. Glad it's multi-OS, available for Linux... will add to my conversion tools. I use a number of PDF manipulation tools and image toolkits/converters but I don't have too many document converters.

Title: Re: Make doc, Pandoc?
Post by: AntiProtonBoy on December 01, 2020, 01:57:00 am

I've been using pandoc for a lot of projects. It's a great tool and supports a very wide range of document formats. I typically use it to convert from Markdown to PDF. Bit of a learning curve to get the parameters right, but if you are looking for a tool for automation, learning how to use pandoc is well worth the effort.

Title: Re: Make doc, Pandoc?
Post by: rsjsouza on December 01, 2020, 02:46:13 am

I use pandoc and found out it does a good job across the most popular standards - in my case, migrating from mediawiki to html. If I try to migrate to rest or markdown, it requires more handholding.

Title: Re: Make doc, Pandoc?
Post by: DiTBho on December 02, 2020, 08:48:42 am

Thanks guys for the feedback. I have already compiled the Haskell compiler, and used it to compile Pandoc.

Spent two days compiling stuff, now I am ready to learn and use the final tool  :D