Converting markdown to PDF

[Jack Lyon]

Steve Litt wrote:

"What we need, and we've needed for over a decade is a real, style for
style, syntactically complete HTML export, or lacking that, finally
finish the job, started a decade ago, of making LyX' native language
format valid and well formed XML. Do that and I'll make a LyX to
(x)HTML converter that drops no styles nor adds styles for silly stuff
like not indenting the first paragraph in a sequence of same-styled
paragraphs, and is suitable for a high quality ePub and other flowing
text eBooks."

Yes, please! That would be wonderful! Thank you!

Best wishes,
Jack Lyon
The Editorium
http://www.editorium.com


On 6/16/2021 7:24 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Paul Smith said on Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:13:15 +0100
>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 9:48 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Using R is a little overkill in my view, but if it works it works
>>>> :-)-O
>>> It's a bit indirect, but for users of the RStudio IDE, you just open
>>> RStudio, open the .md file and click the "Knit to PDF" toolbar button
>>> and you're done (unless you don't like the way the PDF turned out).
>>> In my case, it would save having to look up the command syntax.
>> I believe that a much needed development avenue that LyX could take is
>> to become able to export to markdown. Something like the following,
>> but builtin natively:
>>
>> https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ConvertMarkdown
> Just understand that you'll lose a lot of styles information in a
> conversion of LyX to Markdown. LyX enables you to create and use any
> number of arbitrary character and paragraph styles. Markdown allows
> only a short list of predefined styles, so the LyX styles must be
> shoehorned into Markdown.
>
> What might be more interesting is a Markdown *import*. LyX, equipped
> with a Markdown layout file, could easily print Markdown to pdf, or use
> it as part of a larger LyX work.
>
> What we need, and we've needed for over a decade is a real, style for
> style, syntactically complete HTML export, or lacking that, finally
> finish the job, started a decade ago, of making LyX' native language
> format valid and well formed XML. Do that and I'll make a LyX to
> (x)HTML converter that drops no styles nor adds styles for silly stuff
> like not indenting the first paragraph in a sequence of same-styled
> paragraphs, and is suitable for a high quality ePub and other flowing
> text eBooks.
>
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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