Bill, With more recent version of pandoc, you can write filters for it in python. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/scripting.html On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Bill Meahan wrote: > To save possibly reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a filter for > processing Textile markup analogous to the filters for Markdown and > reStructuredText? > > I tried using Pandoc to provide multiple formats of output (ConTeXt, EPUB, > MS Word) from a common source but Pandoc is excessively tied to Markdown > which does not understand the difference between emphasized text and italic > text and only outputs {\em word}, word, \emph{word} and so forth > which means I have to go through every instance of the tag and change tags > where I want explicit italics as I use other typographical techniques > (small-caps or sans-serif or ...) for emphasis but some things (book > titles, ship names, foreign words/phrases et. al) are always set in italics > by convention. Pandoc continues its "map everything to ways even if > the input is textile or (X)HTML. There are some other neat advantages to > Textile as well such as local styling (CSS or \begin{environment}... or > \startenvironment ...) > > I know a lot of computer languages now and I really don't want to learn > Lua or Haskell -- I'm retired! :) > > -- > Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan > > “Writing is like getting married. One should never > commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.” > > —Iris Murdoch > > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/ > listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________________ >