Re: Isn’t there a plain text reader? Why?

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

On 8/16/19 2:07 AM, Rudi C wrote:
> I currently use a script to create a markdown with this structure:
> 
> # filename
> 
> ```file-extension
> file-content
> ```
> 
> # ...
> 
> Does your solution have advantages over this?
> Btw, is there a table of supported things I can put after the triple `s? 
> Putting “el”, for example, did not activate EmacsLisp highlighting.

No real advantages over this - it's basically an alternate syntax for 
the same thing.

There's no reference table, as it depends on the compile - however you 
can get the list for the current install with:

`pandoc --list-highlight-languages`

> Ps: By plain text, I mean text that always wraps, and keeps its source 
> indentation. The kind of I thing I’ll see when I use `less` on a file.

The point I was trying to make is that 'plain text' isn't a very 
well-defined term, or a structured input language.  Pandoc deals with 
structured input, and has several input formats that could reasonably 
handle random text - but unstructured text is a bit out of Pandoc's scope.

You're not dealing with unstructured text however - you're working with 
source code, and again Pandoc can handle source code in several formats 
- Markdown being the best supported and documented.

Daniel T. Staal

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