Re: Printing conditional parts - looking for suggestions

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

I use a series of filters to build the pandoc man page from the README.
See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/man


+++ Simon Michael [May 17 16 07:00 ]:
>PS since I've linked it, I want to add that in the hledger project, 
>pandoc (now with help from m4, but that's not strictly required) is 
>helping me to generate, from the markdown source:
>
>- man pages
>- info manuals
>- plain text manuals
>- web manuals
>- combined one-page web manual
>
>which is awesome. Thank you John & all!
>
>https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/Shake.hs#L138
>
>
>On 5/17/16 6:49 AM, Simon Michael wrote:
>>I was using pandoc filters for conditional content, which worked quite
>>well. Here's the filter that strips out <div class=web>...</div> blocks,
>>you could probably write it more easily in python:
>>https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/doc/pandoc-drop-web-blocks.hs
>>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/6a97a246dd757e9821650deae54b3a4ee49bd5b9/hledger-api/doc/hledger-api.1.m4.md
>>
>>I wanted a little more, so right now I'm using m4 for conditional
>>content, file including and formatting macros.
>>https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/doc/lib.m4
>>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-api/doc/hledger-api.1.m4.md
>>
>>
>>
>>On 5/17/16 2:11 AM, BP Jonsson wrote:
>>>A filter which removes divs and/or spans with certain classes would be more
>>>robust. Ideally the classes to remove could be specified on the command
>>>line/in metadata. If the OP is interested I can write such a filter.
>>>
>>>Den 17 maj 2016 06:10 skrev "John MacFarlane" <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:
>>>>You might find this useful:
>>>>https://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/how-i-stopped-worring-and-started-using-markdown-like-tex/
>>
>>
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