Pandoc Crash Course

Pandoc is a tool for transforming text documents to different formats. And it's a great tool for generating websites, ebooks, and pdfs from markdown!
In this video, we cover the critical Pandoc features you must know to transform your markdown into sites and ebooks.
More at info at chan.dev/notes/pandoc/
00:00 - What is Pandoc?
02:00 - Install Pandoc on Mac with Homebrew
03:20 - Use Pandoc without options
04:52 - Point pandoc at a morkdown file on disk
05:49 - Pipe pandoc output to file with --output option
06:39 - Convert HTML to markdown by setting --from and --to options
09:38 - Pandoc converts documents between many formats
10:15 - Generate a standalone website with the --standalone option
11:57 - Specify metadata with the --metadata option
13:15 - Define metadata via markdown frontmatter
15:06 - Generate ePub book from markdown source
18:22 - Bye!

[@Ketoswammy]

In the old days, .doc was a very proprietary format that only ms word “knew how to describe”. One of the few good things that came from the predatory monopoly trial of Microsoft was the .xdoc format, where softie was dragged kicking and screaming into describing their format in XML, which they used to change with the seasons to keep any competitor from being able to deal with it. Only Apple’s QuickTime lawsuit (where Apple found their source code embedded in the heart of “windows media” actually saved Apple from softies predatory behaviors though, the government’s lawsuit against softie really didn’t do anything to them except force the monopolists to use XML as a document format.

[@notrab]

Amazing video! Thank you so much for taking the time to record this. Love your setup!

[@chantastic]

Thanks so much Jamie! Can't wait to see how the book comes out!

[@user-yn6ii7ys3u]

Good quality tutorial! Thank you

[@chantastic]

Thank you! I’m glad that you found it useful

[@AnandGiri]

most talented... react tutor... love you man. do produce lots and lots of video plz...

[@chantastic]

aaaah. thank you for the encouragement, Amand! I really appreciate it and hope to bring more soon :)

[@quyho6219]

that's so good man thank you a lot

[@chantastic]

Thanks! Glad you like it!

[@_antaro]

Pretty useful!! Thank you for sharing this content.

[@chantastic]

my pleasure! I'm glad you found it useful

[@1970mcgraw]

A great intro! Thank you! My only minor nit is that I find the poster behind your head distracting. I spent the first several moments of the vid hoping you would lean to one side so I could read what it says :) Great presentation, I've pushed all the bells and whistles.

[@chantastic]

Thanks, Mike! And thanks for pushing all the bells :) I'm planning to do a lot more here the second half of the year. The sign says "Raise Hell, Kid" and I totally agree that it's absolutely trash placement 😆 Thinking thru some possible ideas for updating the background. I'm definitely open to suggestion!

[@curious_tee]

Nice tutorial! Btw, how do you get such nice completion and list on terminal?

[@chantastic]

Thanks, Ali! Yes, I was using fig.io. It's great!

[@curious_tee]

@@chantastic awesome thanks!

[@justingardner8798]

Hi Chan. Would you point out how you’re able to get the prompt to auto complete with a list of options the way you show at 6:00? I think I’d like to try it out but after a search I didn’t make much progress.

[@chantastic]

hey justin! i believe that i was using fig at the time :) fig.io/

[@justingardner8798]

@@chantastic very cool, I’ll have to check it out. Seems like it might be fun to play with for a little while, maybe a keeper. Thank you!

[@DylanDijk]

Do you know how to customise the appearance of code chunks. I want to the code chunks to be more separate from the rest of the text. For example I would like the code chunks to have a different background colour.

[@chantastic]

Hi Dylan! I don't know much about it but this article may be able to help learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/

[@Life_Weekend]

What tool do you use for autocompletion?

[@chantastic]

i was using fig.io at the time. but i believe Amazon acquired them and shut them down.

[@StevenNess]

hello frieds!

[@chantastic]

Hello there!