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pandoc is a format converter, not a format. You still need to write the document. That said, I would rather choose something pandoc supports as an input format
by nonameiguess 3y ago
pandoc is a format converter, not a format. You still need to write the document. That said, I would rather choose something pandoc supports as an input format than asciidoc, which is a constantly moving target that still doesn't have a specification, is governed by a working group that seemingly never makes decisions, and in practice asciidoctor may as well be the specification.
As an addendum to yesterday's discussion of software estimates, one of the more amusing open source versions is this guy saying in July of 2014 he expected pandoc's asciidoc frontend to be done in a "few months": https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456#issuecomment-50805092 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456#issuecomment-50805...
- pbhowmic 3y agoPandoc supports asciidoc. I have used it to convert from .adoc to.md
- lima 3y agoAre you sure? Recent GH issues say that it can write .adoc, but cannot read it.
- gwern 3y ago> You still need to write the document. Note that OP does not suggest that he should write in AsciiDoc because he loves the syntax so much; in fact, (in addition to a bunch of complaints about confusing AsciiDoc syntax) he winds up saying that you should write your AsciiDocs essentially like they are Markdown with a handful of unavoidable AsciiDoc constructs to get the benefits of tooling/syntax-highlighting. If he thought AsciiDoc was so much nicer to write in, syntactically, he should've been clearer about that and included it in the intro list of 'why AsciiDoc' reasons I quoted. So, that is not an answer to my question of 'why not just use Pandoc + a little bit of custom CSS?'