I use pandoc—and its flavor of markdown—to create my webpages, slides, PDFs, and Word files. Ironically, the only place I don’t use it is here, on a markdown-based blog, where I have been stuck with Pelican’s more limited markdown parser.
Fortunately, the pandoc-reader plugin is now good enough. This entails a speed hit, but I can turn on pelican’s cache—new to me—and in sum it’s faster than before with more functionality!
I can include footnotes1, citations (Giddens 1979), and tables:
| Right | Left | Center | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 123 | 123 | 123 | 123 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Awesome!
The one hitch is that you have to convert your markdown files with
pelican metadata to pandoc YAML metadata. I wrote pel2pan.py
for this.
References
Giddens, Anthony. 1979. Central Problems and Social Theory: Action,
Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis. University of
California Press.
Your foot is noted.↩︎
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