Re: How to add raw Markdown in filter?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 9 October 2017 at 14:50, John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> If you write the filter in Haskell, you can simply use
> the readMarkdown file from Text.Pandoc to parse the
> Markdown.

Might have to do that, but was hoping to keep it using pandoc-types
only for licensing reasons (maybe just tell end-users to do it?
*shrug*).

> Note that the lua filters functionality in the dev version
> also provides access to the parsers, so you can do this
> in lua also.
>
> In other languages you'd have to shell out to pandoc.
>
> +++ Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [Oct 09 17 12:38 ]:
>>
>> Is there any way using a filter to be able to inject markdown into a
>> document using a filter and have it be parsed/processed when
>> converting?  Ideally, I'd like to be able to generate PDF from the
>> result (`pandoc --read=markdown --write=latex --output=foo.pdf
>> --filter=./myFilter input.md`).
>>
>> Using `RawBlock "markdown"` doesn't work as the rest of the document
>> has already been parsed, so the contents of those blocks are then
>> ignored.
>>
>> As such, as far as I'm aware my options are:
>>
>> * Try and write my own mini-parser that handles a subset of Markdown
>> and thus the filter can inject the correct Haskell representation of
>> the intended Markdown
>>
>> * Use a 2-stage process for Pandoc to first apply the filter and write
>> out to Markdown, then pipe the results into Pandoc to convert to PDF
>> (not ideal as this is for a library that should be able to just
>> generate whatever results you want).
>>
>> Is there anything else I can try and do?
>>
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