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Occasional pandoc contributor here, AMA :-) Just a few links: - Where everything is documented: http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html -
by mb2100 8y ago
Occasional pandoc contributor here, AMA :-)
Just a few links:
- Where everything is documented: http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
- If you have questions or suggestions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss
- Contributing to pandoc is also a great way to get your feet wet with Haskell. In my experience, very supportive community. See http://pandoc.org/CONTRIBUTING.html http://pandoc.org/CONTRIBUTING.html and for good first issues: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+...
Finally, a great feature, that hasn't been mentioned here, is pandoc filters. Basically, pandoc provides a way for scripts (in any programming language) to hook into the transformation pipeline and modify the document AST (similar to the HTML DOM) in-between the reading and writing steps. See http://pandoc.org/filters.html http://pandoc.org/filters.html
- paule89 8y agoeverytime I see a project using google groups, i think it is already dead. Gladly yours seems to be used quite often. At least you can search it even years later, compared to an irc or slack channel.
- benhoyt 8y agoHeh, not quite. Go (the programming language) uses Google Groups (golang-nuts and golang-dev), and it's very alive.
- mb2100 8y agoAren't mailing lists even older than IRC? Anyway, whatever works, right?
- neves 8y agoIRC channels and mailing list are excellent for informal questioning about a project. You can search for guidance, see if a feature would be well received, and receive a green light before starting to implement something. Other day I thought about contributing to Yarn, the Javascript package manager, but the only way that I found to communicate with the developers were issues in GitHub. Since I didn't know if the feature I wanted would be well received, I just quit.
- dean177 8y agoThat seems a little bit extreme, why not just open the issue?
- y4mi 8y agothat issue becomes part of public history. i'm not the parent, but that is the main reason i try to abstain from posting on public forums unless its under a pseudonym, which my github account isn't. I'm not trying to say that my anonymity is guaranteed with irc, its just unlikely that future employers and similar link it to me.
- reitanqild 8y agoAgree. That's probably one of tje reasons why HN is so interesting: Requiring everyone to sign in with full, verified name limits what people can talk about. In fact I'd almost recommend against commenting online on anything using your full name.
- cerberusss 8y agoHave a look at Firefox Multi-Account Containers. You can open a tab that has a different color, and it uses a different cookie database. Very useful, because you can create an extra Github account and quickly switch between those accounts. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- roblabla 8y agoHey, just a one-time contributor here (fixed a small bug in the wikitext parser), I have to say that the community is really, really great! I had never done any haskell before, but with just a little guidance from the IRC channel (#pandoc on freenode), I was put on the right track and submitted my small PR, which was merged quickly. Overall great experience. Thanks for the great tool :).
- mariushn 8y agoCould we consider Pandoc a rough replacement for leanpub publishing tools?
- mb2100 8y agoProbably. I'm not too familiar with leanpub, but seems like they're actually using pandoc to import docx.[0] And with pandoc you can also export to epub, pdf, docx, indesign, etc. [0]: https://leanpub.com/anewcourse https://leanpub.com/anewcourse