Add plain input format or similar method to escape Markdown

[nichtich]

Related to issue #1685 I am looking for a method to convert a plain Unicode string to Pandoc Markdown. For instance:

echo '- \hello <world>' | pandoc -f plain -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"Para","c":[{"t":"Str","c":"\u002d"},{"t":"Space","c":[]},{"t":"Str","c":"\u005chello"},{"t":"Space","c":[]},{"t":"Str","c":"\u003cworld\u003e"}]}]]

and by this

echo '- \hello <world>' | pandoc -f plain -t markdown
\- \\hello \<world\>

in addition to

echo '- \hello <world>' | pandoc -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"BulletList","c":[[{"t":"Plain","c":[{"t":"RawInline","c":["tex","\\hello "]},{"t":"RawInline","c":["html","\u003cworld\u003e"]}]}]]}]]

By the way this seems to be a bug in the Markdown export:

echo '[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"Para","c":[{"t":"Str","c":"\u002d"}]}]]' | \
pandoc -f json -t markdown | pandoc -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"BulletList","c":[[]]}]]

[jgm]

echo 'Str "hi*there*"' | pandoc -f native -t markdown
hi \*there\*

+++ Jakob Voss [Oct 26 14 02:55 ]:

Related to issue #168 I am looking for a method to convert a plain Unicode string to Pandoc Markdown. For instance:

echo '- \hello ' | pandoc -f plain -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"Para","c":[{"t":"Str","c":"\u002d"},{"t":"Space","c":[]},{"t":"Str","c":"\u005chello"},{"t":"Space","c":[]},{"t":"Str","c":"\u003cworld\u003e"}]}]]

and by this

echo '- \hello ' | pandoc -f plain -t markdown

• \hello

in addition to

echo '- \hello ' | pandoc -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"BulletList","c":[[{"t":"Plain","c":[{"t":"RawInline","c":["tex","\hello "]},{"t":"RawInline","c":["html","\u003cworld\u003e"]}]}]]}]]

By the way this seems to be a bug in the Markdown export:

echo '[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"Para","c":[{"t":"Str","c":"\u002d"}]}]]' |
pandoc -f json -t markdown | pandoc -t json
[{"unMeta":{}},[{"t":"BulletList","c":[[]]}]]

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#1721

[lierdakil]

Yes, but writing in native format would require escaping backslashes and double quotes by hand, would it not?

[jgm]

+++ Nikolay Yakimov [Oct 27 14 17:57 ]:

Yes, but writing in native format would require escaping backslashes and double quotes by hand, would it not?

Yes, though you can always write a little program to do this for you.

[mmirate]

Yes, the program in question is quite little indeed, fitting neatly on two lines:

main :: IO ()
main = putStr "Str " >> interact show

[mpickering]

I think @mmirate provides a good solution.