Compile Step: Export via Pandoc

[matthewmerendo]

What should this step do? I use Pandoc to create Word documents from my manuscript notes. It'd be nice if I could do that as a compile step rather than something I do manually after the compile

Should this step affect scenes, manuscripts, or join the two? Manuscripts

[kevboh]

This is technically doable with a user step right now—I've done it in my own vault. It's complicated to include in Longform directly since pandoc has external dependencies. I've been meaning to look into integrating with another plugin, or perhaps finding a way to do it in Longform. Thanks for the reminder. Happy to share a version of my user step if you're interested.

[matthewmerendo]

Definitely! Share away!

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[zverhope]

I'd love to see a version of your Pandoc user step if you're still willing to share.

[fabioscarsi]

This is technically doable with a user step right now—I've done it in my own vault. It's complicated to include in Longform directly since pandoc has external dependencies. I've been meaning to look into integrating with another plugin, or perhaps finding a way to do it in Longform. Thanks for the reminder. Happy to share a version of my user step if you're interested.

Yes, please. Share it.

[kevboh]

Here you go—sorry I took so long to do this!

A few notes:

1. It requires pandoc and pdflatex to be installed. I do this via homebrew, with brew install pandoc and brew install mactex. Note that mactex is gigantic.
2. There are a bunch of options in the step you probably need to fill out to get it working. Here's what mine looks like:

3. It does a bit of formatting, like prepending the title, that should probably be done as a dedicated step instead. Homework for you, maybe!

[kevboh]

I'm keeping this issue open in case I ever decide to include this in Longform proper, but it's not a high priority at the moment. Hopefully this user script helps!

[kerim]

This was posted a while ago. I'm wondering if this is still the best way to do this? Currently I'm using the Enhancing Export plugin to export with Pandoc.

[kevboh]

As far as I know, yes—I haven't messed much with pandoc since posting this.