reStructuredText preview filter

[Oliver Taylor]

I’m trying to setup a simple Preview Filter for reStreucturedText using pandoc.

Pandoc reads from STDIN and prints to STDOUT - the following works great in the terminal:

echo "this is **marked-up** text" | pandoc -f rst -t html

=> <p>this is <strong>marked-up</strong> text</p>

My thought (and I’m sure this isn’t correct) was that making a Preview Filter would be as simple as a file that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
pandoc -f rst -t html

…but no luck. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

[Maarten Sneep]

I suspect that pandoc can’t be found in the environment that is presented to the shell script. Try using the full path to pandoc instead.

Best,

Maarten

[Steve Piercy]

FYI, there is a nifty Python utility for a live preview of
reStructuredText called restview. Set up an HTML Web Site in
BBEdit with the name of the server, then edit .rst files and
view them with preview.
https://github.com/mgedmin/restview

And a BBEdit Language Module for syntax coloring and autocompletion.
https://bitbucket.org/EricFromCanada/ericfromcanada.bitbucket.org/src/default/bbedit/reStructuredText.plist

--steve


On 12/28/13 at 3:29 PM, oliver...@me.com (Oliver Taylor) pronounced:

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Steve Piercy, Soquel, CA

[Oliver Taylor]

On Dec 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Maarten Sneep <maarte...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I suspect that pandoc can’t be found in the environment that is presented to the shell script. Try using the full path to pandoc instead.

Thanks Maarten, that did the trick.