Would it be possible to provide pandoc citations?

[lf-araujo]

Hastyscribe is already a lovely markdown converter, however AFAIK it depends on Discount for the processing.

• Is there any way pandoc citations would be possible in hastyscribe, so it could be also used as a scientific document producing tool?

[h3rald]

Short answer: not right now...

Long answer:

When I created HastyScribe, I wanted to create a simple tool to produce technical documentation like user manual, developer guides etc. Among the many markdown processors available at the time, Discount was one of the few that provided some advanced (although non-standard) features that enable HastyScribe to easily support block-level styles for notes, sidebars etc.

On top of that, HastyScribe provides many additional features that are applied before processing markdown syntax, like snippets, macros, and even including external files, which make it possible to use it to effectively author a technical document.

Now... HastyScribe is very opinionated really, so I have no plans to support pandoc as a backend for text processing right now. However, patches are welcome to enhance its functionalities of course! Or, alternatively, a description of what you would like to achieve in terms of input/output would also help.

Sadly (or luckily 😜) I am not very familiar with scientific documents and all their nuances... What are you trying to achieve exactly? Would you like to generate a bibliography in some way? How would you like HastyScribe to (ideally) handle it? What would it look like at the end? This could be an interesting feature after all.

[lf-araujo]

Thank you for the response.

I use rmarkdown to produce several types of documents. In the past I made my thesis on it, currently I use it for reports or papers. R is a funky language that I learned because of work, not because I really like to code with it, for this reason I was looking after some substitute for it in Nim and hastyscribe comes very close.

Any scientific text will require citations, there is no way around it. It would be great to have citations on hastyscribe in the future.

Best,
lf

[h3rald]

Leaving this open, it is a very valid feature request!

Not sure when I'll be able to have a proper look at it, but I'd like to keep this around anyway.