pandoc-filter

This project supports some useful and highly customized pandoc python filters that based on panflute. They can meet some special requests when using pandoc to

• convert files from markdown to gfm
• convert files from markdown to html
• convert other formats (In the future)

Please see Main Features for the concrete features.

Please see Samples for the recommend usage.

Backgrounds

I'm used to taking notes with markdown and clean markdown syntax. Then, I usually post these notes on my site as web pages. So, I need to convert markdown to html. There were many tools to achieve the converting and I chose pandoc at last due to its powerful features.

But sometimes, I need many more features when converting from markdown to html, where pandoc filters are needed. I have written some pandoc python filters with some advanced features by panflute and many other tools. And now, I think it's time to gather these filters into a combined toolset as this project.

Installation

pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple/ -U pandoc-filter

Main Features

There are 2 supported ways:

• command-line-mode: use non-parametric filters in command-lines with pandoc.
• python-mode: use run_filters_pyio function in python.

For an example, md2md_enhance_equation_filter in enhance_equation.py is a filter function as panflute-user-guide . And its registered command-line script is md2md-enhance-equation-filter.

• So, after the installation, one can use it in command-line-mode:

  pandoc ./input.md -o ./output.md -f markdown -t gfm -s --filter md2md-enhance-equation-filter
  

• Or, use in python mode

  import pandoc_filter
  file_path = pathlib.Path("./input.md")
  output_path = pathlib.Path("./output.md")
  pandoc_filter.run_filters_pyio(file_path,output_path,'markdown','gfm',[pandoc_filter.md2md_enhance_equation_filter])
  

Runtime status can be recorded. In python mode, any filter function will return a proposed panflute Doc. Some filter functions will add an instance attribute dict runtime_dict to the returned Doc, as a record for runtime status, which may be very useful for advanced users. For an example, md2md_enhance_equation_filter, will add an instance attribute dict runtime_dict to the returned Doc, which may contain a mapping {'math':True} if there is any math element in the Doc.

All filters with corresponding registered command-line scripts, the specific features, and the recorded runtime status are recorded in the following table:

[!NOTE]

Since some filters need additional arguments, not all filter functions support command-line-mode, even though they all support python-mode indeed.

All filters support cascaded invoking.

Samples

Here are 2 basic types of examples

Convert markdown to markdown (Normalization)

• Adapt AMS rule for math formula
• Convert Github style alert to Hexo style alert
• Normalize footnotes
• Normalize internal link
• Sync local images to Aliyun OSS

Convert markdown to html

• Normalize headers, anchors, internal links and link-like strings

Contribution

Contributions are welcome. But recently, the introduction and documentation are not complete. So, please wait for a while.

A simple way to contribute is to open an issue to report bugs or request new features.