Pandoc 3.0 released

[Posted January 19, 2023 by corbet]

Version 3.0 of the Pandoc document-conversion tool has been released; the list of new features is quite long, including "chunked" HTML output, support for complex figures, and much more.

Pandoc 3.0 released

Posted Jan 19, 2023 19:09 UTC (Thu) by lollipopman (subscriber, #120613) [Link] (3 responses)

Pandoc is one of the handful of opensource projects I love:

- It usually does what I expect
- I find all types of uses for it in my daily work
- The author is kind and welcoming to new contributors
- It allows me to use markdown as my composing hammer

Pandoc 3.0 released

Posted Jan 19, 2023 22:06 UTC (Thu) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039) [Link]

Hear, hear! I use Pandoc almost daily to transform Markdown input into PDFs for general consumption. Not quite the height of desktop publishing, but the simplicitly greatly outweighs the limitations almost every time.

Pandoc 3.0 released

Posted Jan 20, 2023 14:45 UTC (Fri) by jgg (subscriber, #55211) [Link] (1 responses)

What is really vexing is that some distros have stopped including pandoc, like Red Hat. I guess the entire Haskell Universe is too much for them.

The practical upshot is you can't rely on it being installed as part of a package building sequence. eg to have it generate man pages from markdown or HTML documentation or whatever.

Pandoc 3.0 released

Posted Jan 20, 2023 14:55 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> What is really vexing is that some distros have stopped including pandoc, like Red Hat. I guess the entire Haskell Universe is too much for them.

Depends on what you mean. Fedora continues to include them. RHEL didn't but EPEL does for EL7 and EL9. Refer to https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/pandoc/pandoc/