Hello, I have begun working on a custom writer for Pandoc to convert Markdown into MOM, Peter's Groff macro set. You can check it out here.
https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom I will upload my files in a few hours once I arrive home from work. I'm not a developer or programmer, so anyone who is interested in helping out is welcome! MOM Macros for Groff Peter Schaffer's MOM macros <http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/> are a set of macros that make it easy for create professionally typeset documents, from simple articles to complete books. MOM is well documented and actually very pleasant to work with.It can do whatever LaTeX can do and often can do it more easily. Groff and MOM are extremely lightweight and comiling a document is blazing fast. The only drawback is that writing in pure MOM---as with writing in pure LaTeX/ConText---is that it can be distracting to have to write so many tags while typing. <https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom#markdown-and-pandoc>Markdown and Pandoc Enter Markdown. Mardown is a simple markup language which can be used to write your content in plain text without being distracted by prsentation of that content. Using Pandoc, Markdown can be converted into many target outputs, including LaTex and ConText. I wanted to see how easy it would be to do the same for converting Markdown to MOM. Turns out it's not that difficult. But I certainly welcome any input from more experienced coders! <https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom#trying-it-out>Trying it Out! If you have pandoc installed, you can give it a whirl by running the following: pandoc mom-test.txt -t mom.lua -o mom-test.mom Where: 1. mom.lua is the custom writer for markdown->MOM. It assumes that file is in your current working directory. Otherwise you will have to explicitly write out the path of where you put this file. 2. mom-test.txt is a markdown file. The one I'm using for my tests is in the repository. 3. mom-test.mom is the output mom file you are generating. Then to generate a PDF from your .mom document, run: pdfmom mom-test.mom > mom-test.pdf <https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom#what-works>What Works Still very much a hack at this point as I'm still new to all this. But conversion of basic Markdown elements to MOM works for: - headings - bold, italics - blockquotes - footnotes - lists - superscripts <https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom#what-doesnt-work>What Doesn't Work Right now these don't work, or only partially work: - images <https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom#the-plan>The Plan Right now I have hardcoded some default values into the script that generates the MOM code, but the idea will be that all those settings that relate to HOW you want your document to look (like page size, margins, heading styles) would be specified in a separate file, like a stylesheet, which you can specifiy to use when the document being compiled. This would allow for easily changing the look of your document simply by specifying a different "stylesheet".
