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A question to experienced Pandoc users:

I want to write a small book that I want to generate in 3 formats: HTML pages, EPUB and PDF. What is the best input format (source format) for the book? Pandoc Markdown? CommonMark? GFM?

I'm a little hesitant to committing myself to Pandoc Markdown or any Markdown because they all have tiny differences with each other. Each is like its own standard.

I considered Org-mode for some time but there are so many edge cases in which Pandoc does not parse Org-mode properly. I mean sometimes simple things like internal links are not rendered properly by Pandoc in the generated output.

So what's the best format to write the input in? Any ideas? Opinions?

parent mapreduce 2 years ago

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