pandoc 2.0: how to treadt backwards compatibility

pandoc 2.0: how to treadt backwards compatibility

['Bernhard Weichel' via pandoc-discuss]

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Hi, 

great to see that pandoc is continuously improved. Thanks.

Some years back I wrote "Wortsammler" 
(https://github.com/bwl21/wortsammler) as a document compiler which 
essentially is based on pandoc. The advantage for the user is that 
compatibility issues between pandoc versions are handled in Wortsammler. 
The drawback is, that new features provided by pandoc are not available 
immediately.

I now started to migrate wortsammler to pandoc 2.0. Pandoc is really a 
complex thing, and the fact that it sometimes changes defaults does not 
make life easier. So I basically need to run my tests and fix the by try 
and error.

In order to maintain such wrappers, it would be helpfule

1. the change documentation would have a section what to do to handle non 
compatible changes - even the list might be long.
2. it would be possible to export the default settings of extensions in any 
form which can be diffed and also be reused in future pandoc runs
3. the latex-style would be divided into a documend skeleton and and a 
package with latex command definitions required by pandoc (for example 
\tightlist). This would make it easier to maintain document specific latex 
templates.

I think pandoc is too powerful - and therefore also a bit too complex to be 
used without some wrappers (maybe only shell script or a buildfile). Such 
wrappers are application specific and provide a kind of abstraction on top 
of the many pandoc features.

-b






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