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> Pandoc’s great — it really is. But I still had no end of trouble with it. Now I haven't done anything really advanced with it - but from what I've done so fa
by nadams 11y ago
> Pandoc’s great — it really is. But I still had no end of trouble with it.
Now I haven't done anything really advanced with it - but from what I've done so far it's worked great. Being able to export to PDF and epub with the right formatting from the same document is huge leaps for me.
> First of all, there is no documentation.
Now I can't take the author seriously.
* https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki
* http://pandoc.org/README.html http://pandoc.org/README.html
I'm not saying it's the most obvious tool to use - but with some digging I was able to figure it out.
> Ultimately I had to delve into the source to figure out why some things worked and other things did not.
Well...yeah. Pandoc isn't this magical thing that supports converting every possible format and niche feature back and forth without some sort of loss of style or formatting. Even tools like OpenOffice and LibreOffice have some formatting and style issues with the real Office tools.