pandoc support

[mitya57]

please add support for [http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/](pandoc's extension) to markdown, since it is a very convenient lot of additions. Maybe some other extensions could be added, but I am not familiar with the other so that I can only recomment Pandoc's one. Note: There is already a pandoc wrapper for python by Kenneth Reitz: https://github.com/kennethreitz/pyandoc

Reported by: codronm

Original Ticket: retext/tickets/7

[mitya57]

I give pandoc converter a test today, here's what I got:

• I can't open the .rtf file it generated in LibreOffice or WordPad

• HTML tags are splitted:

  <p
  >Here is some example <em
  >export</em
  > text.</p
  >

• It removes all HTML-tags style from Markdown document
• It adds many blank lines to the end of the document
• It doesn't support python-markdown extensions

Also, the most popular of supported formats are already included in ReText (PDF, ODT, HTML), and it doesn't support some popular formats (such as .docx).

I'm not really satisfied with its quality :(. But this does not mean that I won't implement the support, I'll take another look at pandoc later.

Original comment by: mandriver

[onlyjob]

I also would very much like to have Pandoc support in Retext. Maybe Pandoc has matured since 2015 but these days it is an awesome Markdown converter with so many features: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown

For now because of Pandoc support I have to use Ghostwriter but Retext interface is better so it might be good to introduce Pandoc support for feature-parity with Ghostwriter.

Thanks!