pandoc - an implementation of Markdown in Haskell

Robert M. Ullrey robert_ullrey at mac.com
Thu Aug 10 18:00:45 EDT 2006


John,

This looks great. I have to wait until GHC is ported to intel Macs
before I can run it, but it looks much more elegant then multimarkdown.

Robert

On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:46 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:


> I've just released an early version of a Markdown implementation in

> Haskell (using the Parsec parser combinator library). pandoc converts

> Markdown to HTML, LaTeX, reStructuredText, rich text format, and S5

> HTML

> slide shows. It partially converts HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText

> to Markdown. It also makes it easy to include LaTeX math on HTML

> pages,

> using Peter Jipsen's ASCIIMathML.js.

>

> Source code and instructions are available at

> http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc.html

>

> pandoc isn't a "fully compliant" markdown implementation. I've

> documented

> the (very minor) differences in the README file.

>

> I'd be curious to hear any impressions, bug reports, etc. (especially

> if you get it working on Windows -- I've tried it only on linux and

> MacOS X). You'll need the GHC Haskell compiler to compile it.

>

> John MacFarlane

>

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