Re: Success story: Pandoc at NASA

[Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Clarification: 
> Also, these two papers: [links] were written in pandoc.

I mean they were written in Markdown and converted to latex with pandoc.

Sorry for the mixup.

Ivan
On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:28:41 AM UTC-7 Ivan Perez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm sure this is very little in comparison with all the successes of 
> pandoc, but I wanted to let you know what we used pandoc at NASA to create 
> the documentation needed so that the projects Copilot (
> https://github.com/Copilot-Language/copilot/) and Ogma (
> https://github.com/nasa/ogma) could be used in more critical software and 
> in flights.
>
> The documentation is written in Markdown and the converted to PDF via 
> latex using pandoc. Using Markdown has made it much easier to keep a clean 
> document and also to compare documents across projects to search for 
> meaningful differences.
>
> I used a custom template for this based on pandoc's standard template, 
> with lots of fields in the header that need to go in the first pages of the 
> document (they are like form fields). I'm also using % as a comment in 
> pandoc to separate sentences to make documents easier to read, and I'm 
> pre-filtering the file removing all lines matching '^%$'.
>
> Also, these two papers:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3609026.3609727
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3609025.3609475
> were written in pandoc. For those, I didn't use a custom template. Rather, 
> I converted the core text of the paper to LaTeX with pandoc and then had a 
> paper.tex file that imported the result.
>
> I hope this is of interest to some people in the community.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan
>

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