On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:44:32AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15 '20 at 05.50 NZST, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> > wrote: > > I never found pandoc useful for anything - so much so that i never > > even felt a need to evalute its quality for real. I dimly remember > > that on rare occasions, i saw man(7) output generated by pandoc, > > and if i remeber correctly, that was of poor quality - but i'm not > > sure and it isn't terribly relevant because pandoc is used very > > rarely in practice in the first place. > > > > What do you want to do with it? > > I have colleagues that use pandoc to produce docs, because it's simple > and heck, they've normalized on it. > > I myself prefer to generate documents straight from LaTeX, but it means > I can't directly work with them. > > That's most often the situation. > > I would also like a pandoc port. There are about 80 haskell dependencies for > it, none of it is in our ports tree yet. >
FWIW I've been using pandoc via cabal for quite a while now. Sure, it's a bit messy, and I've often ended up having to rm -rf ~/.cabal and reinstalling everything from scratch, which takes a while, but hey, "it works for me"(tm). --
