Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-30 Thread Cág
Greg Reagle wrote: You could buy a bigger hard drive. Wasting resources is never a good idea. -- caóc

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Stephen Gregoratto
On 2019-04-29 09:06, Charlie Kester wrote: > And doesn't zathura use poppler, which is bloated and slow compared to > mupdf? Zathura can use mupdf as a PDF/EPUB/XPS backend. -- Stephen Gregoratto PGP: 3FC6 3D0E 2801 C348 1C44 2D34 A80C 0F8E 8BAB EC8B

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread nsm
If this has (de)evolved into a general sucks less document writing thread, I too would recommend {g,t}roff. Luke Smith’s YouTube series is a good intro for the impatient. OpenBSD’s manpage for roff is an excellent read over coffee: https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
niedz., 28 kwi 2019 o 21:46 Thomas Meulendijks napisał(a): > > Hi all, > > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > I do this because of a few things, > > - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. > - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of choice > -

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 29 Apr 2019 at 02:53:10 PDT Przemek Dragańczuk wrote: Troff seems to be one of the better options. Luke Smith has some tutorials on using troff and groff here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRe2YeaMjPTKXSc5FqJZ_km For live previewing I suggest zathura instead of mupd

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Lee Fallat
HTML renderers are vast and somewhat easy to code, depending how far you want to go. After seeing that css4.pub website, it has opened my eyes: why are we doing Markdown at all? If we stick to using tags like header, article, main, div, p, ul/ol/li, and maybe a few others, what more do we really

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-29 Thread Przemek Dragańczuk
Troff seems to be one of the better options. Luke Smith has some tutorials on using troff and groff here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRe2YeaMjPTKXSc5FqJZ_km For live previewing I suggest zathura instead of mupdf, since zathura automatically refreshes when it detects changes

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:44:48 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > Hi all, >   > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > I do this because of a few things, > > - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. > - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Stephen Gregoratto
On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > I want to move away from pandoc since (on arch Linux at least) the > package with dependency is 420MiB. So pandoc is written in Haskell, which has no stable ABI. To avoid linking issues, most haskell programs are statically linked. However, the Arch

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Kai Hendry
I recommend using HTML aka http://css4.pub/ Convert to PDF using a Web browser. Though the best "CSS Paged Media" support can only be found in the proprietary https://www.princexml.com It sucks less than Latex imho. /me adornes flame suit

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Jacob Louis Prosser
But TeX is too convoluted, Just use troff. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, April 29, 2019 10:17 AM, Patrick <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> wrote: > On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > > > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. > > 1. use T

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Greg Reagle
What about Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) ?

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Greg Reagle
Is there any problem with pandoc. You mention that it takes 420 MB. Is that the only complaint you have with it? Otherwise, it seems to be meeting all your goals? You could buy a bigger hard drive. There is a markdown program [1] which seems to be very small, which will get you from markdow

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Patrick
On 2019-04-28 21:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: > I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. 1) use TeX 2) create the TeX macros that you want to use 3) write a script to convert the old non-TeX docs 4) ditch markdown.

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Lukáš Hozda
Howdy, for documents, I am currently using troff + mupdf + a small program to watch file changes. Whenever I spot a change of my source file, I rebuild the PDF from the troff and send SIGHUP to mupdf, which will reload the document. It is reasonably lightweight and it does meet your requirements

Re: [dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Carlos Nascimento
I'm also interested in suggestions, thanks. On 28-Apr-19 20:44, Thomas Meulendijks wrote: Hi all, I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. I do this because of a few things, - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. - I want to edit my documents in my text

[dev] Pandoc replacement that sucks less

2019-04-28 Thread Thomas Meulendijks
Hi all,   I am currently using pandoc to convert my markdown files into pdf. I do this because of a few things, - I want to be able to manage my documents in git. - I want to edit my documents in my text editor of choice - I want to first type and afterwards worry about styling (for this I use lat