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Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX by applicative on Sunday May 24, 2026 @05:18PM (#48261087)
==> pandoc : stable 3.9.0.2 (bottled), HEAD

Swiss-army knife of markup format conversion

https://pandoc.org/

Installed (on request)

From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

==> Installed Kegs and Versions

pandoc 3.9.0.2 (11 files, 274.7MB) [Linked]

==> Dependencies

Required (1): gmp

Recursive Runtime (1): all installed

==> Analytics

install: 31,898 (30 days), 119,598 (90 days), 369,388 (365 days)

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX by joesuf4 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:43PM (#48261746)
Yawn. Nobody uses it to parse GFM unless they are over 60.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX by applicative on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:47PM (#48269615)
It is used almost entirely with gfm, the operation of gfm was in consultation. it was in this connection that the commonmark specification was formulated.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX by joesuf4 on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:30PM (#48270045)
Seven years ago? Who cares?