are you telling pandoc that the source is html and not markdown? On Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 13:19 philmac-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org wrote: > Thank you for your assistance! Indeed, I misread the situation, though the > outcome is still strange. The HTML I am starting with in my clipboard is a > complete document with a doctype declaration. The first line is: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > > Pandoc (pandoc -t html+smart) converts the angle brackets into HTML > entity names: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “ > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”> > > Later on in my process, the content gets converted to RTF using textutil, > which removes doctype declarations but retains the line above, converting > the entity names back into angle brackets—which is how I got the idea that > Pandoc had put it there. > > I am not sure why my Pandoc command converts the angle brackets in that > first line—it leaves the other angle brackets in the document alone—but I > can just remove that line from the clipboard text before processing it with > Pandoc, so no problem. > On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 10:48:46 AM UTC-5 tkur...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org > wrote: > >> When standalone is not specified, pandoc typically outputs fragments >> rather than a complete document. This is convenient for the case where you >> are processing multiple fragments into one document. (This happens in HTML >> output but also in other output; groff -ms, ConTeXt, LaTeX.) So normal >> HTML output I see when I don't specify standalone does *not* include the >> doctype. >> >> $ echo '* Bogus' | pandoc -r rst -w html >>

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>> >> This is with pandoc 2.16.2, installed with homebrew. >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 9:33 AM Joseph Reagle >> wrote: >> >>> The doctype declaration is a standard HTML feature and declares the >>> version of the HTML. Pandoc, especially in `--standalone` mode includes >>> these at the start of an HTML document. >>> >>> I'm confused, however. You haven't specified standalone mode. (And why >>> would you want them removed in any case?) And the behavior you are >>> describing doesn't correspond to recent versions -- I'm using 2.16.2. I'm >>> not sure when/if pandoc last used HTML4.01 strict. >>> >>> In any case, you could create your own HTML template, without a doctype >>> declaration. >>> >>> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#templates >>> >>> On 21-12-27 15:04, phi...-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org wrote: >>> > I am using Pandoc to convert dumb quotes to smart quotes in HTML. The >>> HTML is on my MacOS clipboard: >>> > >>> > pbpaste | pandoc -t html+smart | pbcopy >>> > >>> > The output begins with >>> > >>> > >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”> >>> > >>> > and a blank line. >>> > >>> > Is it possible to turn this off? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/e8eac3cc-feb6-e3af-dc9d-d3fe0b964925%40reagle.org >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> T. Kurt Bond, tkur...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, https://tkurtbond.github.io >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/60674d49-1a0d-485d-ac2f-ae6a8283dde9n%40googlegroups.com > > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAK0LiymrsEZNYPmEoJOrBfzXaensH1_tGTC3iv9Km878KGpsuA%40mail.gmail.com.