#pandoc — Public Fediverse posts

This week @readbeanicecream is my guest for the #OverUnder 078

He shares his thoughts on #Pandoc, #Ghostty, #PKM, #diary, and #Flammkuchen..

He also replied to @alex's question.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #journaling #plaintext #food #blogging #writing
#blaugust2026 #blaugust
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-078

Article by @lwn on Pandoc.

"Pandoc is a document-conversion program that can translate among a myriad of formats, including LaTeX, HTML, Office Open XML (docx), plain text, and Markdown. It is also extensible by writing Lua filters that can manipulate the document structure and perform arbitrary computations."

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064692/

#Software #Documents #Formats #Writing #Pandoc

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Git 2.53 Released with New Features and Performance Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/git-2-53-released-with-new-features-and-performance-improvements

Zed Editor adds multiple edit prediction providers and pluggable architecture:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/zed-editor-adds-multiple-edit-prediction-providers-and-pluggable-architecture/

WooCommerce 10.5 boosts analytics scalability and admin performance:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/woocommerce-10-5-boosts-analytics-scalability-and-admin-performance/

Notepad++ reveals its updater was hijacked by state-sponsored hackers:
https://betanews.com/article/notepad-reveals-its-updater-was-hijacked-by-state-sponsored-hackers/

Deno Deploy reaches GA with CI/CD, observability, and Deno Sandbox beta launch:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/deno-deploy-reaches-ga-with-ci-cd-observability-and-deno-sandbox-beta-launch/

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
(Yeah, let's make drivers playing games when driving, so they can't pay attention to their surroundings, will cause more accidents)

NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-Blender

Pandoc 3.9: WebAssembly Support, PDF standards, and improved browser features:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/pandoc-3-9-webassembly-support-pdf-standards-and-improved-browser-features/

GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nettle-4.0-Released-SLH-DSA

Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-Upstream-With-KVM

Stremio for Android TV v1.9.1 updates player and user settings:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/stremio-for-android-tv-v1-9-1-adds-player-updates-and-new-user-settings/

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026

NetBSD's Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don't Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-Rust-In-NetBSD-Kernel

NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC1

smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/smolBSD

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-Next-Gen-IPS

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #Zed #ZedEditor #Git #NotepadPlusPlus #WooCommerce #DenoDeploy #Deno #Toyota #GameEngine #NVIDIA #Blender #Pandoc #GNUNettle #VirtualBox #Stremio #GNUHurd #NetBSD #smolBSD #OpenIndiana #BSD #OS #Programming #Coding #Development #Dev #GameDev #GameDevelopment #FosseryTech

Once again I went down a rabbit hole figuring something out, and now you -- yes, you, random person on the internet -- can benefit from my work.

I write slides for my classes in markdown and turn them into reveal.js slides. Sometimes I want to post the slides, but I want to strip out speaker notes and other non-useful bits. I could edit the output, maybe, but...ugh. Let's do this properly.

You can write filters for pandoc, but the documentation just wasn't that great.

Well, I figured it out: https://gist.github.com/dandrake/1b6deb7779b5629f75b35bfac3a2f9aa

#pandoc #revealjs #lua #markdown

#ELinks with `-dump-color-mode 2 -colors 1` has colors and numbered links

#links2 with `-html-numbered-links 1` is monochrome, but has numbered links

#Lynx too, but its output looks more messy to me.

#w3m doesn't highlight links and doesn't output link URLs at all.

#Pandoc can't handle table layouts, which unfortunately are still very common in commercial emails.

#HTML2Text (the C++ tool, https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text) does a decent job and supports bold & underline in `less` and NeoMutt's pager.

Late last week, I dusted off a project that had been abandoned by one of our drive-by volunteers about three years ago.

I was strugglin' a bit getting the dependency restraints updated and re-familiarizing myself with the repo and publishing configurations. I think that's in good shape now & I can mostly focus on document conversion & layout.

Now that I've got more familiarity with #Sphinx and #pandoc than I did three years ago, I looking forward to making some progress this week.

It's been a long time itch to scratch of mine & now I've got some time & motivation. We shall see....

#Xfce #Documentation #ReadTheDocs

Hier sind die Folien meines :nixos: #NixOS workshops grade eben beim #Tübix2025:

https://nobodyinperson.gitlab.io/talks/2025-tuebix-nixos-workshop.html

#Tübix #Tübingen #nix #pandoc #revealjs

Some #FavoriteTools

#perplexity.ai for thoughtful web queries. (Shows reasoning and references.)

#Vim for #TextEditing

#Firefox w/ #Tridactyl #uBlockOrigin

#Raindrop for #Tagging and #Bookmarking web pages

#Inoreader #RSS reader

#Pandoc for document creation/conversion

#Ubuntu #Linux (even if it's running under Windows #wsl

#Python w/ #Jupyter #Pandas #Matplotlib #numpy #scipy #plac

#TheBrain for #KnowledgeManagement (but considering moving to #Obsidian)

#MoonReader for ebooks and PDFs

#RolandFP90 and A-88 for #piano

#transcribe for working through #music #video

#Leatherman #SkeletoolCX for EDC multitool

#Benchmade #Griptilian when I need more of an actual knife

#Signal for #messaging

#mastodon for social media

#antennapod for podcasts

#streamlightwedgext for #EDC flashlight

Xwriter V0.4.0 is out !
Bug fixes and User-interface improvement in this version

#Xwriter is a rich-text editor with an extended #markdown syntax and #pandoc under the hood

Teasing : V0.4.1 will add files 'transclusion' (include files)

https://codeberg.org/sudokill/Xwriter

#markdock #editor #richtexteditor

@zatnosk @Gina I was thinking the same. Even just using a simple search/replace to put a newline before each < should hopefully give a more useful line number indication to see exactly which tag isn't closed properly.

I also wonder how many of the documents in the #office world actually need such formatting, and where something like #markdown (perhaps run through #pandoc to export to #PDF) or #RichTextFormat wouldn't just suffice...