Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:44:48 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > Hi all, >   > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > I do this because of a few things, > > - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. > - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Stephen Gregoratto
On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > I want to move away from pandoc since (on arch Linux at least) the > package with dependency is 420MiB. So pandoc is written in Haskell, which has no stable ABI. To avoid linking issues, most haskell programs are statically linked. However, the

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Kai Hendry
I recommend using HTML aka http://css4.pub/ Convert to PDF using a Web browser. Though the best "CSS Paged Media" support can only be found in the proprietary https://www.princexml.com It sucks less than Latex imho. /me adornes flame suit

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Jacob Louis Prosser
But TeX is too convoluted, Just use troff. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, April 29, 2019 10:17 AM, Patrick <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> wrote: > On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > > > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > > 1. use

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Greg Reagle
What about Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) ?

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Greg Reagle
Is there any problem with pandoc. You mention that it takes 420 MB. Is that the only complaint you have with it? Otherwise, it seems to be meeting all your goals? You could buy a bigger hard drive. There is a markdown program [1] which seems to be very small, which will get you from

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Patrick
On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. 1) use TeX 2) create the TeX macros that you want to use 3) write a script to convert the old non-TeX docs 4) ditch markdown.

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Lukáš Hozda
Howdy, for documents, I am currently using troff + mupdf + a small program to watch file changes. Whenever I spot a change of my source file, I rebuild the PDF from the troff and send SIGHUP to mupdf, which will reload the document. It is reasonably lightweight and it does meet your requirements

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Carlos Nascimento
I'm also interested in suggestions, thanks. On 28-Apr-19 20:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: Hi all, I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. I do this because of a few things, - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. - I want to edit my documents in my

[dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Thomas Meulendijks
Hi all,   I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. I do this because of a few things, - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of choice - I want to first type and afterwards worry about styling (for this I use