Cool trick!

I can see now why were you testing the convert_text() code.

One question though, if you first do

pandoc example.md --output=example2.md

Then applying the filters to example2.md would be an idempotent operation?


On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 5:13:18 PM UTC-5, Kolen Cheung wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wrote another “interesting” filter base on the same idea, but in 
> reverse: pantable/pantable2csv.py at master · ickc/pantable 
> <https://github.com/ickc/pantable/blob/master/pantable/pantable2csv.py>. 
> It converts all tables in pandoc to a YAML-CodeBlock-styled CSV table 
> defined in pantable.
>
> Effectively, it adds a “CSV Writer”, where pantable is kind of “CSV 
> Reader”.
>
> I can kind of achieve idempotence here, but only at [image: P^3 = P^2], 
> not [image: P^2 = P] (it’s from pandoc though). Basically it captures all 
> info from pandoc’s AST, so the conversion pantable2csv did should be 
> “lossless”.
>
> These are at least important to me because I can safely jump between the 2 
> formats (native pandoc table and csv table in code-block) without worrying 
> too much. I could jump to csv for edit (more low-level, e.g. width control) 
> and jump back to pandoc tables for better readability.
> ​
>

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