Pandoc claims to be a universal document converter--and it is pretty great for XML, LaTeX, and a few obscure formats--but I've found that it doesn't quite come close to being an "ffmpeg" of text...
Pandoc claims to be a universal document converter--and it is pretty great for XML, LaTeX, and a few obscure formats--but I've found that it doesn't quite come close to being an "ffmpeg" of text document/book formats. Even Calibre's ebook-convert is better at bidirectional conversion support.
Still, it is pretty neat that this all runs in the browser! I'll have to remember that this exists
We use Pandoc at my workplace to convert old Word documents to Asciidoc. It's not perfect, but gets you 80% of the way there. Having to install and run it locally was always a hurdle for the less...
We use Pandoc at my workplace to convert old Word documents to Asciidoc. It's not perfect, but gets you 80% of the way there. Having to install and run it locally was always a hurdle for the less technical people, so this is a pretty nice development. :)
I use it for technocal papers, letting me write the text vody in markdown which is nice for rough drafts and notes, and then converting it to paper or hypertext format through either latex->pdf or...
I use it for technocal papers, letting me write the text vody in markdown which is nice for rough drafts and notes, and then converting it to paper or hypertext format through either latex->pdf or html with css. Great for writing text intended for multiple formats.
Don't know if I'll be using the online tool much, but it's that it's there (and is now also in my bookmarks).
Pandoc claims to be a universal document converter--and it is pretty great for XML, LaTeX, and a few obscure formats--but I've found that it doesn't quite come close to being an "ffmpeg" of text document/book formats. Even Calibre's
ebook-convertis better at bidirectional conversion support.Still, it is pretty neat that this all runs in the browser! I'll have to remember that this exists
We use Pandoc at my workplace to convert old Word documents to Asciidoc. It's not perfect, but gets you 80% of the way there. Having to install and run it locally was always a hurdle for the less technical people, so this is a pretty nice development. :)
I use it for technocal papers, letting me write the text vody in markdown which is nice for rough drafts and notes, and then converting it to paper or hypertext format through either latex->pdf or html with css. Great for writing text intended for multiple formats.
Don't know if I'll be using the online tool much, but it's that it's there (and is now also in my bookmarks).