Hi Joseph,

yes, Pandoc readers and writers for the gift format would be great.

Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an Indian holiday on {
~15th
~3rd
=2nd
} of October.

This would translate to HTML to something like this:

<form action="http://www.foo.com" method="POST">
  <div>
    <label for="Q1">Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an Indian holiday on</label>
    <select id="Q1" name="Q1">
       <option value="Q1R1">15th</option>
       <option value="Q1R2">3rd</option>
       <option value="Q1R3">2nd</option>
    </select>
  </div>
</form>

This seems rather straight forward. But what about the server side?

In this case, the server would receive "Q1=Q1R1" if you select the first answer.

The server needs to be configured with the gift file, but I suppose this is a different process.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 2:59 PM Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

I hadn't encountered GIFT before, neat! You'd have to write custom readers and writers for pandoc to handle this.

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-readers-and-writers

Otherwise, if you have a GIFT tool, you could simply include the resulting HTML in the markdown -- there's no markdown convention for forms.

A dream feature of mine would be able to write quiz/polls in my markdown-to-revealjs slides, and not have to set up my own server -- which the revealjs poll plugin currently requires. Embedding some of the question services out there would be awesome and possible, but I don't think there's been interest on the revealjs sde.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/issues/2763

Then, being able to write questions/answers in a text format would be icing on the cake. 🙂

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