On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 06:07:45PM +1200, Tom Wong-Cornall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15 '20 at 05.50 NZST, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I never found pandoc useful for anything - so much so that i never > > even felt a need to evalute its quality for real. I dimly remember > > that on rare occasions, i saw man(7) output generated by pandoc, > > and if i remeber correctly, that was of poor quality - but i'm not > > sure and it isn't terribly relevant because pandoc is used very > > rarely in practice in the first place. > > > > What do you want to do with it? > > As a mutt user, I find pandoc useful to generate HTML mail from a normal > plaintext email starting point. Markdown (a valid "from" format for > pandoc) is after all essentially just plaintext email "markup", so it's > fairly transparent. > > Obviously this might be a rather inflammatory statement in itself, as > HTML email is its own special hell for many people, but it's hard to get > away from having to send the occasional piece when interacting with the > wider world that don't spend their lives like me in an rxvt window. > > There's some nice examples (not mine) here: > https://nosubstance.me/post/mutt-secret-sauce/ >
Would multimarkdown (in ports) be a viable alternative for this? --
