[OS X TeX] Pandoc
Alain Schremmer
schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 01:48:08 CET 2011
On Feb 26, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Rob Rye wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had experience with Pandoc? <http://johnmacfarlane.net/
>> pandoc/>
>
> Your note regarding pandoc intrigued me. I would love to have such
> a tool at my fingertips. I have downloaded and installed everything
> and run an extremely simple test converting a brain dead
> simple .tex article file to a .html file. The conversion looked
> fine, but I have no idea how well things will go if I push it with
> more complex files.. When I get time to do so, I intend to report
> on its efficacy. As noted in the original post, pandoc does appear
> to be extremely versatile, what I don't yet know is whether each
> sort of conversion is also extremely finicky.
>
> For those interested in trying it out, it is remarkably simple to
> install the Haskell platform and to then install pandoc. The
> Haskell Platform, is available for download at:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
>
> The pair of .dmg packages that comprise the download will install
> everything you need to have in place in order to download and
> install pandoc (following the commands copied above). Note that
> documentation for other modes of installation for the Haskell
> platform (e.g. installing GHC, etc. piecemeal) indicated that XCode
> was required for GHC...
>
> Iif you want to have pandoc "globally" available you will need to use
>
> cabal install --global pandoc
>
> This will put pandoc in /usr/local/bin. Otherwise the executable
> will end up on ~/.cabal/bin and you will need that folder in your
> path to be able to use pandoc.
>
> I will stop for now for fear I may be straying off-topic for this
> list, but, I the threads Alain mentioned suggest I am not the only
> one with interest in being able to convert .tex files into other
> formats for various and sundry reasons.
One reason is that the way to epub is paved with html. So, I may bite
after all.
Best regards
--schremmer
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