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To: pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Do Pandoc's conversion functions which exist in both directions guarantee/aim for bijectivity?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 13:24:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
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There’s actually lots of info about this. Pandoc is not even idempotent, 
let alone bijective.

So no, you cannot depend on this especially if you want to convert it back 
and forth a lot of times.

On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:23:12 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Wang wrote:

> I was not able to find any concrete information establishing the answer to 
> this question. I ask this to see how much I can depend on using Pandoc for 
> an application that would convert back and forth between two formats, one 
> for storage/authoritative purposes and the other for rendering/display 
> purposes. Thanks!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-03 22:23 Jeffrey Wang
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2021-05-03 22:34   ` Daniel Staal
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2021-05-04 17:44       ` John MacFarlane
2021-05-04 20:24   ` christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org [this message]
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2021-05-04 21:22       ` Jeffrey Wang
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2021-05-04 21:34           ` christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
     [not found]             ` <81417776-15c4-4dfb-8229-0dc15614c88dn-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
2021-05-04 21:35               ` Jeffrey Wang

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