One of the beauties of Pandoc is the architecture that allows for very easy
expansion and that shows on the number of (ever increasing) formats
supported.
That made me wonder what formats Pandoc does not cover, yet! I kind of
know two of them:
The Rocket eBook (RB) format of the first eBook reader:
The Compiled HTML (CHM) that Microsoft used a huge lot for documentation:
Aren't these of historical interest only? (Although they might make sense as source formats.)
What other file formats you would like to see being supported by Pandoc?
Perl's Pod documentation format. I have been working on a custom writer and am almost there. It mostly just needs documentation (which I by occupational injury am very picky about) and a way to make some things configurable when implemented as a custom writer rather than as a filter mogrifying plain output (Question to Albert: are metadata available to custom writers?)
A reader would be nice although Pod::Pandoc <
https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Pandoc> sort of fills that niche (and Pandoc::Elements would probably need some updating, which I as the main contributor am as guilty as anybody of not doing!) Since Pod in principle is extensible I would like a reader which is smart enough to turn nonstandard commands and formatting codes into Pandoc Divs and Spans, and a convention like
``````pod
=for :image
``````
into a proper Pandoc image element.
FWIW I do have some qualms about Pod tools implemented in languages other than Perl, but that's probably mostly unfounded.
/BPJ
