The Lua system now includes `pandoc.utils.documentation` for online help. Pass it a pandoc function or module, and it will return the docs for that object.

#pandoc #OnlineHelp #lua

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pandoc/116011707001692685

And it's completely ad-free, of course.
Many thanks to everybody sponsoring us!

🆕 pandoc 3.9 🎉🚀

• Official support for wasm (WebAssembly), allowing to run pandoc in the browser,
• *alerts* extension in the pandoc Markdown flavor,
• support for defaults files using JSON instead of YAML,
• extension of `${.}` vars in the `defaults` field, making it easier to base defaults […]

The pandoc wasm demo, which do document conversions in the browser, now supports Lua filters!
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/

#pandoc #wasm #lua #luafilter

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustaceans/115935765654152634

No matter your stance on projects created with LLM-tools, please remember that these new converters would not have been possible without the manual work that went into pandoc.
The project here is a comparatively pleasant and positive […]

Off-label-use: pandoc as a network downloader

Lua helper script (pget.lua):

#!/usr/bin/env pandoc-lua
local mb = require 'pandoc.mediabag'
local path = require 'pandoc.path'
local uri = arg[1] or error"No URI given"
local out = arg[2] or path.filename(uri)
local mt, content = mb.fetch(uri)
mb […]

Off-label uses of pandoc: conversion between text encodings.

Convert text encodings, UTF-8 to UTF-16:

echo 'X' | pandoc lua -e 'io.write(pandoc.text.toencoding(io.read"a", "utf-16"))'

Other direction:

echo 'X' | pandoc lua -e 'io.write(pandoc.text.fromencoding(io.read"a", "utf-16"))'

The […]

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:

https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html

#pandoc #wasm

The include-files Lua filter allows to include documents from other files. It supports easy adjustment of nested headings, reading files in different formats, and recursive transclusion.

https://github.com/pandoc-ext/include-files

#pandoc #luafilter

🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉

This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants).

It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.

Thanks to all who contributed! […]

Getting support for #pandoc
• The "Discussions" forum on GitHub has become the central place for community support: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions
• A wealth of knowledge can be found in the archive of the pandoc-discuss mailing list https://inbox.vuxu.org/pandoc-discuss/
• Likewise […]