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by dfc 5218 days ago
"Much more" is a drastic understatement. Pandoc is awesome.

The only "convert X.txt to Y.txt" task that pandoc can not handle is X=wikipedia

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I noticed that a few years ago and found it surprising but figured it would show up soon. Is there a technical reason it hasn't, or just lack of sufficient motivation an anyone's part?
Apparently wikipedia's format is a pain to parse. I think jgm posts here as fiddlosopher he is the best source for the gory details...

But there is definitely sufficient motivation just google "convert wikipedia to" for some examples. I think that the arcane syntax is a big lockin factor with large wikipedia based sites...

There is a ticket for it: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/388