Pandoc filters

A collection of pandoc filters. They are written in Lua, which makes them faster than filters written in any other language. Copy from the dist folder into $HOME/.local/share/pandoc/filters. Use them with --lua-filter.

Usage

code-includes

For all output formats

Include code from another file by using a code block attribute and the name of the file inside the code block. This is useful for a couple of reasons:

• You can keep code examples in separate directory and keep everything in sync.
• Large scripts that you don't want to scroll past can be kept in a separate file.

File paths can be either absolute or relative. Relative paths are relative to the directory from which pandoc is run.

```{.python inc=yes}
/path/to/file.py
```

standard-code

For HTML output

Pandoc has great syntax highlighting built-in but sometimes you just want to use something else. Unfortunately, the default pandoc codeblock output with --no-highlight looks like this:

<pre class="lua"><code>print 'Hello World!'</code></pre>

The above is not what the W3C recommends, nor is it compatible with prism.js. This filter makes sure pandoc outputs the recommended syntax:

<pre><code class="language-lua">print 'Hello World!'</code></pre>

Using standard-code.lua doesn't require any changes in your source file.

transclude

For all output formats

Include content from another file just like in AsciiDoc and ReST. Is recursive and works with spaces in file names.

The official Pandoc filters repository has a filter that does this and has a couple of extra features. Use that one instead.

Note that neither filter can resolve internal references between files like footnotes or citations (with pandoc-citeproc). If you do want internal references to work, try m4, a generic preprocessor that should already be installed on your Linux/macOS system. You can also try pp, which has better defaults. Alternatively, you could probably write your own in less than 20 lines of Perl/Python/Awk.

oldschool (under construction)

For plain output

Tries to write files in a basic plain format that you might use for a README that is never meant to be rendered. Extends pandoc's plain output to add some more goodies like header underlines and link targets. Use with like this:

pandoc -s -t plain --lua-filter oldschool.lua -o <output> <input>

Insipired by the READMEs of Bash and Opus.

License

All filters are distributed under the MIT license.