He’s talking about Typora. It is at least the 2nd time (that I know of) people confused between Typora and pandoc. I guess we might need to talk to the typora developer to ask him to make it clear to its users/customers that typora is not pandoc, and any support should be directed towards him.

Typora’s author wrote his own parser and uses an AST and markdown that is sort of compatible with pandoc. But typora is not open-source. pandoc is an optional dependency of typora, if installed, allowing the users to have outputs that typora didn’t covered natively. However, since the author defines its own markdown and parser to parse it to its own AST, pandoc might choke on its input.

I tested Typora when it was newly launched. I was evaluating if it is a good GUI for pandoc. In the end I found out that it isn’t, exactly because of the custom markdown and AST thing (that sort of compatible to pandoc) and has no way to uses pandoc’s own one (because of the rendering engine relies on their own markdown to AST, persumbly for speed). I don’t know if it has changed since, but doubt it.

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