On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 15:02:24 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 14:23:54 UTC, Pradeep Gowda
wrote:
pandoc comes with an unbelievable amount of dependencies.
Notably the LaTeX dependency: on Mac the LaTeX distribution is
a whopping 2gb download.
It seems nice in theory, but in practice pandoc takes things
like \newpage (latex code fragments) in their Markdown input.
And Markdown already accepts HTML tags! I much prefer DDoc.
I use pandoc everyday.
This is provably false. You do not need LaTeX to use pandoc.
On linux and mac it's a self-contained binary. (I don't use
windows, so i don't know).
This is how i use it everyday:
1. write markdown and convert to docx for sharing with coworkers.
Not a single line of LaTeX
2. just finished writing a paper in IEEE format using just
pandoc, which i converted to latex and yet did not have to use a
single inline latex command in the main document.
2. write my website/notes in markdown and convert to HTML using
hakyll which uses pandoc as a library. No Latex there either.
