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@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ # TODO +* Fix bug in latex reader? "... gets converted the wrong way. + +* Use XHTML library for HTML writer? + * Revisions for building with windows under cygwin: Cabal under windows produces 'pandoc.exe', and some of the scripts - expect 'pandoc'. + expect 'pandoc'. (See if this has now been fixed by Makefile change.) + +* Windows binary distribution: pandoc.exe. Work this into the website + target. + +* Consider allowing 'a.', 'b.', etc. to mark ordered lists. Perhaps + also '(a)', '(1)', 'a)', '1)', etc., as in rst. This does depart from + markdown syntax. * Consider making section headers block titles rather than blocks. Instead of: [Header 1 "My title", Block1, Block2, Block3], @@ -10,6 +21,10 @@ This seems cleaner and would facilitate a docbook writer. It might also simplify the rst reader. +* Consider merging changes in pandoc-wrappers (symlinks rather than + wrapper scripts, except web2markdown and markdown2pdf). This also + needs documentation. + * pandoc's HTML output fails to validate completely (w3c). There are a few quirks: + HTML doesn't like the \> at the end of <meta tags. @@ -41,47 +56,3 @@ Disadvantage: Perhaps slightly harder to read. (But HTML and LaTeX output will still be easy to read.) -* Consider scrapping most of the wrapper scripts in favor of having - symlinks to pandoc. Modify pandoc so that it changes its defaults - depending on the name of the calling program (getProgName). - This would eliminate a lot of complexity and allow better handling - of options (eliminating the need for a separation between wrapper - and pandoc options, for example). - - If we do this, we should change option parsing in pandoc to allow - options after arguments. This will preserve backward-compatibility - with the present wrapper system. We'd also want to add an -o - option to pandoc (output file). When -o foo is specified, pandoc - should print "Created foo" to stderr on success (unless --quiet - is specified). - - A disadvantage is that we'd lose iconv conversion. But maybe this - isn't needed anymore; UTF-8 seems to be standard on most systems now. - - The tricky wrappers to replace are markdown2pdf and html2markdown. - - markdown2pdf: - - save working_directory - create tempdir - if markdown2latex "$@" >tempdir/output 2>tempdir/logfile; then - extract output-file from logfile (this will be foo.pdf) - if output-file found: - mv foo.pdf tempdir/foo.tex - else: - mv tempdir/output tempdir/foo.tex - cd tempdir - run pdflatex on foo.tex to produce foo.pdf - mv foo.pdf working_directory/foo.pdf - else: - display logfile to inform user - on exit: - get rid of tempdir - - html2markdown: needs to run the HTML through tidy (mainly because - pandoc's html parser requires closing tags, etc.) So we probably - need something like the existing wrapper script here. roktas - suggests perhaps keeping html2markdown simple and using a separate - script, web2markdown. note: we also need iconv here, since web - pages may not be in UTF8. - |