Re: What might be a good way to process macro's in markdown

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

You might have a look at
http://christophe.delord.free.fr/upp/

One could also use the new "custom reader" capability,
creating a Lua custom reader that preprocesses the content,
resolving macros, then uses pandoc.read to parse the result
using pandoc's regular parser.

Pum Walters <pum.walters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> What might be a good way to use and process macro's in Markdown. The docs 
> have an example of variable-substitution, but not of more general macro's.
>
> A macro might look something like     
> *  ... ordinary markdown ...*
>
> *  <<* name args >> *
>
> *    ...body... *
> *  <</ name >>*
>
> *  ... ordinary markdown ...*
>
> where:
>
>    - the name is an identifier
>    - each arg is an identifier, number or string in quotes
>    - the body is arbitrary text
>    - Obviously, the parentheses <<*, <</ and >> could be anything that the 
>    parser could recognise
>    
> Ideally, processing can be done in Lua, and the result of the macro is to 
> be processed further, to generate Markdown, LaTeX, HTML or other languages.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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