Pandoc does nothing when converting file from markdown to latex

Pandoc does nothing when converting file from markdown to latex

['John Sampson' via pandoc-discuss]

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

[Gregory Weber]

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On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7:40:35 AM UTC-5 sampso...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org 
wrote:

> 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?
>

 Were you expecting some kind of terminal output?  Did not pandoc create 
the output file "outfile.tex"?  Maybe you just need to open that file with 
an editor to confirm it is there?

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

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

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Works for me (Linux Ubuntu LTS, pandoc 2.16.2): your command creates a 
outfile.tex latex file in the current directory.

AFAICT pandoc executable can be anywhere as long as it's the path where 
your OS is searching for executable files.

Do you have an output when you type "pandoc --version" ?

Le mercredi 8 décembre 2021 à 13:40:35 UTC+1, sampso...@googlemail.com a 
écrit :

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

[John MacFarlane]

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

['John Sampson' via pandoc-discuss]

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

[John MacFarlane]

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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>> .
>>
>
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