That turned out to be harder than I’d expected, mainly because I knew virtually nothing about the tool pandoc uses to generate PDF, TeX/laTeX, and the default format didn’t look much like what I was used to generating. Instead of worrying about odt and html, I’d just have one markdown file and spin that off into html and a PDF, avoiding odt altogether. When I learned about pandoc, I figured this was going to do it for me. More annoyingly though, it was just too many steps. In short, not a super long workflow, but still plenty of opportunity for those two versions to go out of sync (which they did). odt and PDF versions by saving the new files with an appropriate name (I stuck the date in it). Edit the odt file with exactly the same content changes.I wasn’t too thrilled with how the html printed, so I didn’t spend much time cleaning it up for that purpose and instead generated the PDF from an OpenDoc file which is easy to format (and which I edit with LibreOffice, BTW). I keep a version of the CV on line as a web page, and another version in PDF for me to share more formally and for the curious to download from the web page. In particular I was thinking about streamlining the workflow for updating my CV, which I do as often as every few months. I also had a heck of a time converting my 1998 dissertation to a newer version of Word, losing a little formatting along the way.īut the major impetus for the effort in recent months has been the second goal of having one master file in markdown (mentioned very briefly in that other post). I can still read the ones I’ve tried to open, but I need to be a bit clever about it and I doubt many of my colleagues would succeed on their own. I’ve got some not so old WordPerfect files on my computer right now, for example (and you can find a bunch of them on my employer’s servers as well), but no WordPerfect app (or “program” as we used to call it). Most people probably will understand the problem with obsolete file formats. In part I did this to avoid future problems with file formats, and in part to be able to have one central file that I could convert to various formats as needed, ideally by using pandoc. View My GitHub Profile 3 October 2015 A Practical application of markdown & pandocĪs I recounted in another post to this blog, I started using the text-only markdown format for my writing a few months ago.
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