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A BNF grammar would be nice to start with. IMHO, pandoc markdown support is the mother of all implement featuring lots of goodies (table and footnote to name 2

A BNF grammar would be nice to start with. IMHO, pandoc markdown support is the mother of all implement featuring lots of goodies (table and footnote to name 2)

swah 14y ago
I convinced my team to use pandoc instead of Word for documenting a new project, and now, because creating tables is so hard (they are not like Emacs users), I'm considering lobbying them back to Word, or writing a preprocessor to insert tables from CSV files... feels bad man.
- _pdeschen 14y ago
  https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca6a29ee20b958eec1/Table.md https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca... How can this be harder than creating table with Word? Word always gets in the way. Word appears to be easier but down the road, it always end up as a painful process. For me just the benefit of being mergable and delegating styling at the end of the tool chain is just plain great. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables Edit: rendering issues!
  - swah 14y ago
    Well, add a last row with the first column larger than the previous rows, assume people don't know about column-mode editing, and you can imagine what they are doing to align... I think I'll just "preprocess" the file, looking for something like !csvtable(filename.csv).
    - swah 14y ago
      --- End of the story --- Wrote the script (it worked), but some specific complex features from Word still were missed ("how do I do a reference to a picture?") and couldn't be easily supported by pandoc or this script. Though for a brief time of going full-mode procrastinator and writing another markup language... Then I had to admit the whole thing wasn't really working and now recommend we move back to Microsoft Word because it's easier. A day of Total fail, and procrastination, and making everyone install MikTex, pandoc and Python. I hope I don't regret for suggesting we use Git...

A BNF grammar would be nice to start with. IMHO, pandoc markdown support is the mother of all implement featuring lots of goodies (table and footnote to name 2)

swah 14y ago

I convinced my team to use pandoc instead of Word for documenting a new project, and now, because creating tables is so hard (they are not like Emacs users), I'm considering lobbying them back to Word, or writing a preprocessor to insert tables from CSV files... feels bad man.

_pdeschen 14y ago
https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca6a29ee20b958eec1/Table.md https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca... How can this be harder than creating table with Word? Word always gets in the way. Word appears to be easier but down the road, it always end up as a painful process. For me just the benefit of being mergable and delegating styling at the end of the tool chain is just plain great. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables Edit: rendering issues!
- swah 14y ago
  Well, add a last row with the first column larger than the previous rows, assume people don't know about column-mode editing, and you can imagine what they are doing to align... I think I'll just "preprocess" the file, looking for something like !csvtable(filename.csv).
  - swah 14y ago
    --- End of the story --- Wrote the script (it worked), but some specific complex features from Word still were missed ("how do I do a reference to a picture?") and couldn't be easily supported by pandoc or this script. Though for a brief time of going full-mode procrastinator and writing another markup language... Then I had to admit the whole thing wasn't really working and now recommend we move back to Microsoft Word because it's easier. A day of Total fail, and procrastination, and making everyone install MikTex, pandoc and Python. I hope I don't regret for suggesting we use Git...