Hey guys !

My name's Damien Clochard and I'm here to talk about the pandoc docker 
images. I hope this is the right channel.

I work for a French PostgreSQL company named 'DALIBO' where we produce **a 
lot** of documents with pandoc, and I'm the maintainer of the 
`dalibo/pandocker` image here:

https://github.com/dalibo/pandocker

We started this project in 2016 because at the time there was no official 
`pandoc/latex` image and because we are using a lot of extras things around 
pandoc : filters, fonts, templates, etc.  A long the way, the image became 
popular, we gained users from outside our company with different needs ( 
e.g.the Noto fonts for non-european langs ) and the project kinda grew 
further than what was initially planned.

Anyway the pandocker image was based on debian stretch and when the 
official `pandoc/latex` was released we could not easily switch back to it 
because we went in antoher direction with our own image.... However 
recently we managed to release a new version based on `pandoc/ubuntu:2.19`. 
This is a great step for us and we are grateful towards this community for 
all the great work you have achieved. 

Well... that was a long introduction to  this simple proposition :

Would you like to add a new official docker image named `extra` built upon 
the `latex` image that would include useful filters and templates ?

First and foremost, I think that the [eisvogel] template (and its latex 
dependencies) would be a great addittion

[eisvogel]: https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template

and we could also add nice filters such as 

* pandoc-latex-environment
* pandoc-include

And some common open-source fonts 

* DejaVu
* Liberation
* AwesomeFont

These elements are currently part of the `dalibo/pandocker` images and I 
would be happy to help adding them into a `pandoc/extra` image.

As far as I know, [eisvogel] is the most active and well designed latex 
template in the community. And integrating an advanced template directly 
inside the docker image is **really** useful for newcomers and more 
generally anyone not familiar with `tlmgr` and the nightmare of handling 
latex dependencies :-D

Think of it as a `batteries included` version of the pandoc docker image 
where users would have access to pandoc AND the best PDF templates AND a 
curated list of nice filters...

Of course there might be other templates and filters worth considering but 
let's start with a small subset of components that we could agree on... 

Again I am willing to help and provide any experience from the 
`dalibo/pandocker` project.

Anyway thanks again for this great software ( both pandoc and its docker 
images )

Regards, 

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Damien Clochard

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