Re: markdown module vs pandoc

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 23:01, Gour wrote:
>
> I'm interested for using markdown markup and typeset such documents via
> ConTeXt, but wonder whether it is recommended to use Markdown module or do
> markdown --> ConTeXt via Pandoc?

If I was you, I would use AsciiDoc, convert it to DocBook and process the XML.
(There is some simple proof-of-concept docbook processing already written.)

Markdown is super ambiguous, with lots of different flavours, and
often resorting to HTML for the lack of more expressive syntax.

> btw, for illustrating
> ConText documents and/or slide-presentation, do you recommend learning
> MetaPost/MetaFun over .eg. TikZ if one wants to focus on single
> (probably my learning plate is already quite full to go into something
> else considering the need to learn ConTeXt itself) package?

I use both.

MetaPost/Fun is really cool when you need a lot of control of what you
want to do, the more calculations you need, the better. There is
relatively little syntax you need to learn to achive nearly anything,
but you mostly need to do stuff from scratch (if you reuse that code,
it gives you a lot of power).

I use TikZ when I need some ready-made stuff with possibly some fancy
shading patterns (or when I would pass the images to LaTeX users). In
those cases you might be able to achive the same in a lot less lines
of code, but you usually constantly need the user manual at hand, and
doing something low level is more tricky. ConTeXt support might be
occasionally broken.

Mojca
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