Re: Do Pandoc's conversion functions which exist in both directions guarantee/aim for bijectivity?

[Jeffrey Wang <jeffwang16-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thank you so much! Glad I found the right place to ask :)

Regards,
*Jeffrey Wang*
jeffwang16-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org


On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:34 PM christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <
christian.kolen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> No worries. I should have mentioned where you could get the info than just
> saying it’s there
>
> It is mentioned in the manual in a subtle way. After you read this thread
> then you’d understand the wordings in the manual means it is not bijective.
> (I forgot what wording it uses, but the problem is that the info is there
> but sometimes not immediately recognizable. May be it didn’t use the word
> lossy, but did mention it’s limitation.)
>
> It is also frequently mentioned in this pandoc-discuss. And in fact I was
> in your shoes asking for this years ago and wrote a summary on this here.
> Ie rather than searching the whole web, searching pandoc-discuss would be
> more fruitful.
>
> But sometimes the search here aren’t great, ironically I think searching
> in google with a phase of pandoc-discuss might help narrow it down better.
>
> Also, I share your frustration that stuffs we ask/mention are almost
> always out there but just that we can’t discover that. So rather than
> tempting others to correct you (that the info does exist), simply asking it
> might be better, and that’s what pandoc-discuss is for. Unlike GitHub issue
> where people should obey much stricter rule of not emitting noise
> (frequently violated in pandoc’s issue tracker unfortunately and people are
> too kind to suppress them), pandoc-discuss is for any pandoc related
> questions, repeated or not.
>
> On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 2:22:48 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Wang wrote:
>
>> Great, thanks for the insight everybody, especially John's confirmation
>> seals the deal.
>>
>> In response to "there's actually lots of info about this", I apologize
>> that Google's search engine was not strong enough to find me this
>> information. I also apologize that I did not invent Google and add semantic
>> search to it. I promise I have tried hard to search for this information
>> before bothering anybody, and I very much appreciate the explicit
>> clarification.
>>
>> Regards,
>> *Jeffrey Wang*
>> jeffw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:25 PM christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <christi...-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There’s actually lots of info about this. Pandoc is not even idempotent,
>>> let alone bijective.
>>>
>>> So no, you cannot depend on this especially if you want to convert it
>>> back and forth a lot of times.
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:23:12 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was not able to find any concrete information establishing the answer
>>>> to this question. I ask this to see how much I can depend on using Pandoc
>>>> for an application that would convert back and forth between two formats,
>>>> one for storage/authoritative purposes and the other for rendering/display
>>>> purposes. Thanks!
>>>
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