I'm currently struggling with a Sphinx:MD conversion project due to 
Pandoc's lack of support for
these Sphinx-specific directives:

* :doc:
* :ref:
* :caption:

@Lucas have you made any progress with these things?

On Friday, 14 February 2020 at 17:41:17 UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:

>
> I don't know what they all look like: can you link to a list?
> Maybe it would be a good idea to add a sphinx extension.
>
> Lucas Escot <lucas...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > Thank you very much for such a quick merge.
> >
> > For the rest of Sphinx directives, should I go ahead and make an 
> extension 
> > or would you feel comfortable having them under vanilla rST too?
> >
> > Le jeudi 13 février 2020 17:29:36 UTC+1, John MacFarlane a écrit :
> >>
> >>
> >> Yeah, even though it's a sphinx extension, I think I'd be 
> >> comfortable merging that. Does anyone disagree? The procedure 
> >> would be to submit a PR. 
> >>
> >> Lucas Escot <lucas...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
> >>
> >> > Hello everyone, 
> >> > 
> >> > I just implemented the highlight directive 
> >> > <
> >> 
> https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/directives.html#directive-highlight> 
>
> >>
> >> > to the pandoc rST reader. 
> >> > This allows one to specify the default language to use when 
> highlighting 
> >> > literal blocks. 
> >> > It is especially useful when writing rST in a literate agda or 
> literate 
> >> > haskell file, where it is undesirable to have to specify the language 
> at 
> >> > every code block. 
> >> > 
> >> > .. highlight:: haskell 
> >> > 
> >> > From now on code will be highlighted as haskell:: 
> >> > 
> >> > data Tree = Leaf | Node Tree Tree 
> >> > 
> >> > An other exemple too show how terse using literal blocks becomes:: 
> >> > 
> >> > main :: IO () 
> >> > main = putStrLn "Hello World!" 
> >> > 
> >> > We can change the language at any point in the document. 
> >> > 
> >> > .. highlight:: python 
> >> > 
> >> > So this block contains python code:: 
> >> > 
> >> > def main(): 
> >> > print("OK") 
> >> > 
> >> > An we can still disable having a default language: 
> >> > 
> >> > .. highlight:: 
> >> > 
> >> > This directive comes from the Sphinx extended rST (which argueably is 
> >> one 
> >> > of the most popular use case of rST out here, see readthedocs.io), 
> >> > this is why I am wondering *what is your stance on adding directives 
> to 
> >> the 
> >> > pandoc reader?* (which are not specified in the docutils reference) 
> >> > 
> >> > My opinion is that such an addition is quite reasonable, and most 
> people 
> >> > use rST with sphinx and are therefore accustomed with said directive 
> >> > already. 
> >> > 
> >> > You can see my implementation here: https://github.com/flupe/pandoc 
> >> > 
> >> > If you all agree it can be merged, what is the process? Should I 
> create 
> >> an 
> >> > issue mentionning the problem or just make a PR? 
> >> > 
> >> > Best, 
> >> > Lucas 
> >> > 
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