Re: Pandoc does nothing when converting file from markdown to latex

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

Normally pandoc is quite fast, but there are a few pathological
cases I've seen where the parser gets slow.  If you want to share
your source file (you could sent it to me privately), I could
take a look.

If you're not using pandoc markdown extensions, I'd recommend
using '-f commonmark' instead of '-f markdown'.  This uses a
faster and more standard parser.

"'John Sampson' via pandoc-discuss"
<pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> There is no prompt. I can find no output file. I would have thought if 
> there were something wrong with the input file there would be an error 
> message of some sort. If there is no indication of progress I suppose it 
> could just be working on the input file but if so it must be extremely slow.
> As I was getting nowhere with Pandoc I have moved on to use something else.
>
> On Thursday, 9 December 2021 at 16:19:52 UTC John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>>
>> Do you get the prompt again on the next line? If so, that's
>> the expected behavior. Pandoc won't print anything to indicate
>> that it has succeeded, but you should now see the file
>> outfile.tex in your directory.
>>
>> (By the way, myfile.md should be in your current working
>> directory -- it doesn't matter if it's in the same directory
>> containing pandoc.exe.)
>>
>> "'John Sampson' via pandoc-discuss"
>> <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>> > I typed the command "pandoc myfile.md -f markdown -t latex -s -o 
>> > outfile.tex"
>> > where myfile.md is in the same directory as pandoc,exe but nothing 
>> > happened. When I pressed "return" the caret went to the next line and 
>> > stayed there. I am new to pandoc - what am I doing wrong?
>> >
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