P.S. Just noticed that pandoc only converts _to_ zim, so on the way back, you need to use something like export _from_ zim to markdown and then potentially pandoc to convert from markdown to other formats
... sounds like there is a good plugin proposal here to directly use pandoc on import / export of data On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:23 AM Jaap Karssenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo Johan, > > Jij ook de de beste wensen voor het nieuwe jaar ! > > The workflow basically relies on "covert xyz --> zim, edit zim, convert > zim --> xyz". Obviously, the bottleneck is the accuracy of the converter to > reproduce the original content as close as possible and reflect the edits > properly. > > Probably the best tool to try would be pandoc ( https://pandoc.org/ ) > which does support zim format among many text based formats. > > Hope this works for you, > > Jaap > > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:54 AM Johan Vromans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Best wishes for 2023! >> >> I was wondering... Would it be possible to use Zim as an editor for >> documents that are not Zim notes. >> >> For example, when I open a particular document, instead of reading it from >> disk Zim would run a plugin or an external tool to fetch the actual >> contents. Likewise, when the document is saved, some other plugin/tool is >> run to write the contents to disk. >> >> Rationale is that I have quite a few markdown or json documents that I >> would love to be able to maintain with a decent tool like Zim. >> >> -- Johan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >
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