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What is AsciiDoc format?
AsciiDoc is a text document format that was explicitly designed with the needs of publishing in mind, both print and web. It supports all the structural elements necessary for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, technical manuals and blogs.
What is R pander?
pander: An R ‘Pandoc’ Writer in ‘pandoc’ markdown or several type of R objects similarly automatically transformed to markdown format. Also capable of exporting/converting (the resulting) complex ‘pandoc’ documents to e.g. HTML, ‘PDF’, ‘docx’ or ‘odt’.
Is AsciiDoc a markdown?
The AsciiDoc syntax is more concise than (or at least as concise as) Markdown. And yet, AsciiDoc is simple enough to stand in as a better flavor of Markdown. But what truly makes AsciiDoc the right investment is that its syntax was designed to be extended as a core feature.
Is there a function to install Pandoc on my computer?
Update: the install.pandoc function is now part of the {installr} package. The install.pandoc () function, as the name implies, will recognize the latest version of pandoc, download its installer to your computer, and run it. Making it even simpler for you to experiment with adding pandoc into your workflow.
Do you need GHC compiler to install Pandoc?
Note that Pandoc requires stack >= 1.7.0. stack setup will automatically download the ghc compiler if you don’t have it. stack install will install the pandoc executable into ~/.local/bin, which you should add to your PATH. This process will take a while, and will consume a considerable amount of disk space.
Do you need to install Cabal to use Pandoc?
If you want to process citations with pandoc, you will also need to install a separate package, pandoc-citeproc. This can be installed using cabal: cabal install pandoc-citeproc By default pandoc-citeproc uses the “i;unicode-casemap” method to sort bibliography entries (RFC 5051).
How to add Pandoc to your workflow?
Making it even simpler for you to experiment with adding pandoc into your workflow. Note: the code in this function is based on GERGELY DARÓCZI’s coding in his answer on the Q&A forum StackOverflow, and also G. Grothendieck for the non-XML addition to the function. I thank them both!