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A cool history of, and some reflections on Pandoc, by its developer (and philosopher) John MacFarlane: #pandoc

@… Je viens just de vérifier, pour mon rapport d’activité, j'ai utilisé #Pandoc avec #TexLaTeX comme backend.

@… Je viens just de vérifier, pour mon rapport d’activité, j’utilisais encore #Pandoc avec #TexLaTeX comme backend. Mais peu importe, on pourrait facilement le remplace…

@… Ce serait #TexLaTeX ;-)
Mais moi, je préférerais #Pandoc avec #Typst

@… Ce serait #TexLaTeX ;-)
Mais moi, je préférerais #Pandoc avec #Typst

I figured out a simple way to do callout boxes in pandoc's markdown, and having fiddled with it all morning, I am posting about it in case anyone is interested: https://codeberg.org/ddrake/simple_pandoc_callouts/

Yes, the command line can be powerful, but I was tired of spinning up a terminal window regularly only to convert a #Markdown file to a certain output format with #pandoc. So to scratch my own itch, I wrote a small python extension for

@… @… Interesting, I’ve never encountered such issues with #Pandoc—but then again, I’ve got 30 years of experience with L…

@… @… Interesting, I’ve never encountered such issues with #Pandoc—but then again, I’ve got 30 years of experience with L…

I didn’t reply to any messages yesterday; instead, I moved my remaining #Pandoc filters to Codeberg and updated the blogpost:
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2026-06-17
The makefiles in these pack…

Filters, Filters, Filters

I didn’t reply to any messages yesterday; instead, I moved my remaining #Pandoc filters to Codeberg and updated the blogpost:
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2026-06-17
The makefiles in these pack…

I didn’t reply to any messages yesterday; instead, I moved my remaining #Pandoc filters to Codeberg and updated the blogpost:
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2026-06-17
The makefiles in these pack…

@… For me, this is, of course, #Emacs. For formatting, I run #Pandoc via make.

@… For me, this is, of course, #Emacs. For formatting, I run #Pandoc via make.