Mardown conversion with Pandoc Lua custom writer

[Omikhleia]

• Sectioning (numbered/unnumbered)
• Basic typesetting
  • Paragraphs
  • Italic, bold, monospace (a.k.a. code)
  • Unicode (check)
  • Smart sequences (Pandoc's task, so just a check)
  • SILE special character escaping
  • Forced line-breaks
• Strike-through
• Underline
• Enumerations, bullet lists (all kinds)
• Task list ("GitHub-flavor" checkboxes)
• Definition lists
• Block quotes
• Line blocks
• Horizontal rules
• Links and footnotes
• Languages
• Images
  • Non-SVG images
  • SVG images
• Tables
• Raw blocks
• Code blocks
  • Basic support
  • Syntax highlighting
• Math
• Custom styles
• Bibliography citations (minimalist)
• Metadata
  • Basic options (papersize, lang, dir)
  • PDF metadata (author, subject, title, keywords)
  • class
  • fonts (main family and fallbacks, size)
• Table of contents (minimalist). Also list of figures/tables? See templates.
• Pandoc template (related to the previous item) so that CLI options (-s, --toc etc.) can be supported.

[Omikhleia]

While I may proceed further on that route, also note my efforts on the "native converter" route: sile-typesetter/sile#1481

In the "sample document" illustrating this "Pandoc custom writer" route, I wrote:

I cannot even imagine the efforts that would be required to fix the existing lunamark-based attempt and
ensure it is good at supporting all of the rich Pandoc-flavor of Markdown…

Needless to say, one should never say never 🤡

[Omikhleia]

The above-mentioned effort on a "native converter" ends up being a 3rd-party package (with additional goodies): https://github.com/Omikhleia/markdown.sile

[Omikhleia]

The above-mentioned effort on a "native converter" ends up being a 3rd-party package (with additional goodies): https://github.com/Omikhleia/markdown.sile

As of the initial issue here, Pandoc has deprecated the "Classic" API for custom Lua writers - So I don't think there's any point keeping the issue opened.