-- This is a sample custom writer for pandoc. It produces output -- that is very similar to that of pandoc's HTML writer. -- There is one new feature: code blocks marked with class 'dot' -- are piped through graphviz and images are included in the HTML -- output using 'data:' URLs. The image format can be controlled -- via the `image_format` metadata field. -- -- Invoke with: pandoc -t sample.lua -- -- Note: you need not have lua installed on your system to use this -- custom writer. However, if you do have lua installed, you can -- use it to test changes to the script. 'lua sample.lua' will -- produce informative error messages if your code contains -- syntax errors. local pipe = pandoc.pipe local stringify = (require 'pandoc.utils').stringify -- The global variable PANDOC_DOCUMENT contains the full AST of -- the document which is going to be written. It can be used to -- configure the writer. local meta = PANDOC_DOCUMENT.meta -- Choose the image format based on the value of the -- `image_format` meta value. local image_format = meta.image_format and stringify(meta.image_format) or 'png' local image_mime_type = ({ jpeg = 'image/jpeg', jpg = 'image/jpeg', gif = 'image/gif', png = 'image/png', svg = 'image/svg+xml', })[image_format] or error('unsupported image format `' .. image_format .. '`') -- Character escaping local function escape(s, in_attribute) return s:gsub('[<>&"\']', function(x) if x == '<' then return '<' elseif x == '>' then return '>' elseif x == '&' then return '&' elseif in_attribute and x == '"' then return '"' elseif in_attribute and x == "'" then return ''' else return x end end) end -- Helper function to convert an attributes table into -- a string that can be put into HTML tags. local function attributes(attr) local attr_table = {} for x,y in pairs(attr) do if y and y ~= '' then table.insert(attr_table, ' ' .. x .. '="' .. escape(y,true) .. '"') end end return table.concat(attr_table) end -- Table to store footnotes, so they can be included at the end. local notes = {} -- Blocksep is used to separate block elements. function Blocksep() return '\n\n' end -- This function is called once for the whole document. Parameters: -- body is a string, metadata is a table, variables is a table. -- This gives you a fragment. You could use the metadata table to -- fill variables in a custom lua template. Or, pass `--template=...` -- to pandoc, and pandoc will do the template processing as usual. function Doc(body, metadata, variables) local buffer = {} local function add(s) table.insert(buffer, s) end add(body) if #notes > 0 then add('<ol class="footnotes">') for _,note in pairs(notes) do add(note) end add('</ol>') end return table.concat(buffer,'\n') .. '\n' end -- The functions that follow render corresponding pandoc elements. -- s is always a string, attr is always a table of attributes, and -- items is always an array of strings (the items in a list). -- Comments indicate the types of other variables. function Str(s) return escape(s) end function Space() return ' ' end function SoftBreak() return '\n' end function LineBreak() return '<br/>' end function Emph(s) return '<em>' .. s .. '</em>' end function Strong(s) return '<strong>' .. s .. '</strong>' end function Subscript(s) return '<sub>' .. s .. '</sub>' end function Superscript(s) return '<sup>' .. s .. '</sup>' end function SmallCaps(s) return '<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">' .. s .. '</span>' end function Strikeout(s) return '<del>' .. s .. '</del>' end function Link(s, tgt, tit, attr) return '<a href="' .. escape(tgt,true) .. '" title="' .. escape(tit,true) .. '"' .. attributes(attr) .. '>' .. s .. '</a>' end function Image(s, src, tit, attr) return '<img src="' .. escape(src,true) .. '" title="' .. escape(tit,true) .. '"/>' end function Code(s, attr) return '<code' .. attributes(attr) .. '>' .. escape(s) .. '</code>' end function InlineMath(s) return '\\(' .. escape(s) .. '\\)' end function DisplayMath(s) return '\\[' .. escape(s) .. '\\]' end function SingleQuoted(s) return '‘' .. s .. '’' end function DoubleQuoted(s) return '“' .. s .. '”' end function Note(s) local num = #notes + 1 -- insert the back reference right before the final closing tag. s = string.gsub(s, '(.*)</', '%1 <a href="#fnref' .. num .. '">↩</a></') -- add a list item with the note to the note table. table.insert(notes, '<li id="fn' .. num .. '">' .. s .. '</li>') -- return the footnote reference, linked to the note. return '<a id="fnref' .. num .. '" href="#fn' .. num .. '"><sup>' .. num .. '</sup></a>' end function Span(s, attr) return '<span' .. attributes(attr) .. '>' .. s .. '</span>' end function RawInline(format, str) if format == 'html' then return str else return '' end end function Cite(s, cs) local ids = {} for _,cit in ipairs(cs) do table.insert(ids, cit.citationId) end return '<span class="cite" data-citation-ids="' .. table.concat(ids, ',') .. '">' .. s .. '</span>' end function Plain(s) return s end function Para(s) return '<p>' .. s .. '</p>' end -- lev is an integer, the header level. function Header(lev, s, attr) return '<h' .. lev .. attributes(attr) .. '>' .. s .. '</h' .. lev .. '>' end function BlockQuote(s) return '<blockquote>\n' .. s .. '\n</blockquote>' end function HorizontalRule() return "<hr/>" end function LineBlock(ls) return '<div style="white-space: pre-line;">' .. table.concat(ls, '\n') .. '</div>' end function CodeBlock(s, attr) -- If code block has class 'dot', pipe the contents through dot -- and base64, and include the base64-encoded png as a data: URL. if attr.class and string.match(' ' .. attr.class .. ' ',' dot ') then local img = pipe('base64', {}, pipe('dot', {'-T' .. image_format}, s)) return '<img src="data:' .. image_mime_type .. ';base64,' .. img .. '"/>' -- otherwise treat as code (one could pipe through a highlighter) else return '<pre><code' .. attributes(attr) .. '>' .. escape(s) .. '</code></pre>' end end function BulletList(items) local buffer = {} for _, item in pairs(items) do table.insert(buffer, '<li>' .. item .. '</li>') end return '<ul>\n' .. table.concat(buffer, '\n') .. '\n</ul>' end function OrderedList(items) local buffer = {} for _, item in pairs(items) do table.insert(buffer, '<li>' .. item .. '</li>') end return '<ol>\n' .. table.concat(buffer, '\n') .. '\n</ol>' end function DefinitionList(items) local buffer = {} for _,item in pairs(items) do local k, v = next(item) table.insert(buffer, '<dt>' .. k .. '</dt>\n<dd>' .. table.concat(v, '</dd>\n<dd>') .. '</dd>') end return '<dl>\n' .. table.concat(buffer, '\n') .. '\n</dl>' end -- Convert pandoc alignment to something HTML can use. -- align is AlignLeft, AlignRight, AlignCenter, or AlignDefault. local function html_align(align) if align == 'AlignLeft' then return 'left' elseif align == 'AlignRight' then return 'right' elseif align == 'AlignCenter' then return 'center' else return 'left' end end function CaptionedImage(src, tit, caption, attr) if #caption == 0 then return '<p><img src="' .. escape(src,true) .. '" id="' .. attr.id .. '"/></p>' else local ecaption = escape(caption) return '<figure>\n<img src="' .. escape(src,true) .. '" id="' .. attr.id .. '" alt="' .. ecaption .. '"/>' .. '<figcaption>' .. ecaption .. '</figcaption>\n</figure>' end end -- Caption is a string, aligns is an array of strings, -- widths is an array of floats, headers is an array of -- strings, rows is an array of arrays of strings. function Table(caption, aligns, widths, headers, rows) local buffer = {} local function add(s) table.insert(buffer, s) end add('<table>') if caption ~= '' then add('<caption>' .. escape(caption) .. '</caption>') end if widths and widths[1] ~= 0 then for _, w in pairs(widths) do add('<col width="' .. string.format('%.0f%%', w * 100) .. '" />') end end local header_row = {} local empty_header = true for i, h in pairs(headers) do local align = html_align(aligns[i]) table.insert(header_row,'<th align="' .. align .. '">' .. h .. '</th>') empty_header = empty_header and h == '' end if not empty_header then add('<tr class="header">') for _,h in pairs(header_row) do add(h) end add('</tr>') end local class = 'even' for _, row in pairs(rows) do class = (class == 'even' and 'odd') or 'even' add('<tr class="' .. class .. '">') for i,c in pairs(row) do add('<td align="' .. html_align(aligns[i]) .. '">' .. c .. '</td>') end add('</tr>') end add('</table>') return table.concat(buffer,'\n') end function RawBlock(format, str) if format == 'html' then return str else return '' end end function Div(s, attr) return '<div' .. attributes(attr) .. '>\n' .. s .. '</div>' end -- The following code will produce runtime warnings when you haven't defined -- all of the functions you need for the custom writer, so it's useful -- to include when you're working on a writer. local meta = {} meta.__index = function(_, key) io.stderr:write(string.format("WARNING: Undefined function '%s'\n",key)) return function() return '' end end setmetatable(_G, meta)