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From: John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: custom LaTeX writer example
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:48:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493DA04D-5B8D-4D3A-8A26-35A8A34E64AB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34e5e93b-8832-40d3-8803-8e5a12b5290an-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>

I'd recommend using a "new style" writer and just replacing the code that formats tables.

https://pandoc.org/custom-writers.html#new-style



> On Nov 14, 2022, at 7:30 PM, bapt a <auguieba-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm hoping to play around with custom writers, to understand a bit better how to turn pandoc's AST into a specific output format (for example, I'd like to use tabularray syntax for tables in LaTeX, and it seems "cleaner" to use a writer than to inject raw inline LaTeX via a filter into the AST). The html writer example is quite useful, but since I'm aiming for LaTeX output, it would be helpful to have something a little closer in syntax as a starting point.
> 
> I searched a bit and the closest thing I could find was a plain TeX writer at https://github.com/drehak/pandoc-to-markdown
> but this is perhaps not as helpful for learning because most of the magic seems to be delegated to custom TeX macros. (A good strategy, but I wouldn't know (La)TeX well enough to perform some of the more complex processing)
> 
> I wonder if someone here has a minimal (or complete!) example of a custom Lua writer for LaTeX they could share?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> baptiste
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-15 19:48 UTC|newest]

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2022-11-15  3:30 bapt a
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2022-11-15 19:48   ` John MacFarlane [this message]
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2022-11-16 19:13       ` bapt a

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