Panda - Pandoc add-ons (Lua filters for Pandoc)

Panda is a Pandoc Lua filter that works on internal Pandoc's AST.

It provides several interesting features:

• variable expansion (minimalistic templating)
• conditional blocks
• file inclusion (e.g. for source code examples)
• script execution (e.g. to include the result of a command)
• diagrams (Graphviz, PlantUML, Asymptote, blockdiag, mermaid...)

Panda is heavily inspired by abp reimplemented as a Pandoc Lua filter.

If you need a more generic text preprocessor, UPP may be a better choice.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Pandoc

Installation from source

$ git clone https://github.com/CDSoft/panda.git
$ cd panda
$ make install          # install panda and panda.lua in ~/.local/bin

Test

$ make test

Usage

$ pandoc -L panda.lua ...

or

$ panda ...

Documentation

The full documentation is in doc/panda.md. The rendered version of the documentation is here: http://cdelord.fr/panda.

License

This file is part of Panda.

Panda is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Panda is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Panda.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further information about Panda you can visit
http://cdelord.fr/panda