Interoperability with pandoc is desirable Some people want MSWord documents and they provide input in the form of MSWord documents. Or LibreOffice ODT. pandoc handles that well for a subset of MSWord options. pandoc allows you as well to write a custom output format -- in this case Pillar. E.g. conversion from MSWord docx to Pillar is possible. It would need somebody to look into the issue of doing some Lua scripting. pandoc has Lua embedded for output generation. --Hannes P.S. I will have some time later for Pillar issues (not Lua), but the document model and generation of slides. Still open issue on my list is rendering Pillar on Morphic, in particular slide. On 10/13/17, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Why exporting to latex, html and markdown is not enough for you ?
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM Gour <gour@atmarama.com> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:18:54 +0000 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Well there is a move towards Pillar for class and method commands so who knows maybe we will have that soon enough ;)
Let me say that I'm very happy seeing that Pillar is moving forward (e.g. addition of support for footnotes) as well as plan for the future (*.epub support) since I'm considering whether it could serve as single-source markup for all of one's writings?
After migrating from Python-powered static-site-generator (to Hugo) and rst markup I was considering to use AsciiDoc(tor) markup for all my content, but, so far, due to using Emacsm settled to use org-mode instead. Haven't tried with slides (yet), but there is Pandoc support for it.
Therefore, I'd rather see Pillar support in Pandoc which would buy us even more import/export capabilities for free instead of focusing on single formats like *.odt, *.epub etc.
Pillar with 1st class support in Pandoc would, imho, improve status of Pharo itself making it along with Pillar exceelent tool for development as well as for all writing needs - articles, books, documentation, slide-presentations.
But it would be nice to make it more transparent where/how can one submit feature request for Pillar?
Fogbugs issue trakcer is certainly not the ideal place these days...
Sincerely, Gour
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