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  pypandoc and restructured text al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-02-20 14:59 +0000
    Re: pypandoc and restructured text Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-02-20 17:07 +0100
      Re: pypandoc and restructured text al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-02-21 13:39 +0000
        Re: pypandoc and restructured text Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2015-02-21 14:46 +0100
        Re: pypandoc and restructured text Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 00:55 +1100
          Re: pypandoc and restructured text al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-02-21 23:20 +0000
            Re: pypandoc and restructured text Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 12:59 +0100

#85976 — pypandoc and restructured text

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to convert restructured text to latex with pandoc and it 
seems to me there's something not correctly working.

I have the following text:

.. figure:: picture.png
   :scale: 50 %
   :alt: map to buried treasure

   This is the caption of the figure (a simple paragraph).

   The legend consists of all elements after the caption.  In this
   case, the legend consists of this paragraph and the following
   table:

   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | Symbol                | Meaning               |
   +=======================+=======================+
   | .. image:: tent.png   | Campground            |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | .. image:: waves.png  | Lake                  |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | .. image:: peak.png   | Mountain              |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+

which is essentially copied from here: 
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#figure

But unfortunately the pypandoc silently ignores everything. The same 
happens with pandoc directly.

My installation is the following:
pandoc 1.5.1.1
python 2.6.6
debian squeeze

Any idea why? Should I upgrade somehow beyond what the debian repository 
delivers?

Al

p.s.: I understand that this is potentially not related to python and more 
related to the package, but there's a chance somebody here already had 
the same problem.

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#85979

On 20.02.2015 15:59, alb wrote:
>
> My installation is the following:
> pandoc 1.5.1.1
> python 2.6.6
> debian squeeze
>
> Any idea why? Should I upgrade somehow beyond what the debian repository
> delivers?
>

I have pandoc 1.12.2.1 and it recognizes the figure directive just fine 
(tested with html output so I cannot say anything about LaTeX).

I've found an old forum post from 2011:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/OmGYDycaMjs

confirming that the figure directive was not supported at that time.
So, yes, I think upgrading pandoc could help.

Best,
Wolfgang

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#86032

Hi Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
[]
> I have pandoc 1.12.2.1 and it recognizes the figure directive just fine 
> (tested with html output so I cannot say anything about LaTeX).

This reminds me that I need to move sooner or later from squeeze to 
wheezy...

Do you know of anyway to install wheezy packages on squeeze? On 
backports there's nothing more than what comes with the squeeze sources.

> I've found an old forum post from 2011:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/OmGYDycaMjs
> 
> confirming that the figure directive was not supported at that time.
> So, yes, I think upgrading pandoc could help.

Thanks a lot for the hint. Maybe I should seriously think about 
upgrading the whole distro. It's just that Gnome3 really sucks to my 
taste and I'm not in the mood to look for another Desktop 
Environment...(maybe I should go back to CDE).

Al

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#86033

On 21.02.2015 14:39, alb wrote:
> Do you know of anyway to install wheezy packages on squeeze?

No need for a new distro. Use virtualenv, this is simple and great:

http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial-part-2/

Cheers,

Fabien

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#86034

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:39 AM, alb <al.basili@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> []
>> I have pandoc 1.12.2.1 and it recognizes the figure directive just fine
>> (tested with html output so I cannot say anything about LaTeX).
>
> This reminds me that I need to move sooner or later from squeeze to
> wheezy...
>
> Do you know of anyway to install wheezy packages on squeeze? On
> backports there's nothing more than what comes with the squeeze sources.
>
> Thanks a lot for the hint. Maybe I should seriously think about
> upgrading the whole distro. It's just that Gnome3 really sucks to my
> taste and I'm not in the mood to look for another Desktop
> Environment...(maybe I should go back to CDE).
>

This is a bit off-topic for python-list, being more about Debian than
the language, but trying to install just one Wheezy package on Squeeze
is probably a bad idea; you'll probably find that it's built against a
different version of libc and such, so you'd need to upgrade pretty
much your whole system.

Your two best options are, IMO:

1) Install pandoc from source, which will then build it against your
existing libraries. This may not work (if it depends on a newer
version of something), but it should tell you if that's the case. You
won't disturb your system in any way.

2) Upgrade the entire OS to either Wheezy or Jessie. Personally, I'm
quite happy with Jessie, even though she's not officially stable yet
(and have you _seen_ her? Definitely mentally unstable); but whether
you go Wheezy or Jessie, grab Xfce rather than Gnome 3. The latest
Jessie installers are giving an option on installation as to which
desktop environment(s) to install, but if you do it as an upgrade, you
may want to explicitly uninstall Gnome and install Xfce, either before
or after the upgrade.

Happily using a mix of Debian versions here, but all with Xfce.

ChrisA

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#86072

Hi Chris,

Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
[]
>> Thanks a lot for the hint. Maybe I should seriously think about
>> upgrading the whole distro. It's just that Gnome3 really sucks to my
>> taste and I'm not in the mood to look for another Desktop
>> Environment...(maybe I should go back to CDE).
>>
> 
> This is a bit off-topic for python-list, being more about Debian than
> the language, but trying to install just one Wheezy package on Squeeze
> is probably a bad idea; you'll probably find that it's built against a
> different version of libc and such, so you'd need to upgrade pretty
> much your whole system.

I apologize for littering the group, thought somehow many users here 
might have had a similar issues with pypandoc.

[]
> 2) Upgrade the entire OS to either Wheezy or Jessie. Personally, I'm
> quite happy with Jessie, even though she's not officially stable yet
> (and have you _seen_ her? Definitely mentally unstable); but whether
> you go Wheezy or Jessie, grab Xfce rather than Gnome 3. The latest
> Jessie installers are giving an option on installation as to which
> desktop environment(s) to install, but if you do it as an upgrade, you
> may want to explicitly uninstall Gnome and install Xfce, either before
> or after the upgrade.

I finally upgraded! And I'm currently trying out xfce!
Thanks again for the suggestions.

Al

p.s.: now pandoc works as expected.

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#86099

On 22.02.2015 00:20, alb wrote:
> I finally upgraded! And I'm currently trying out xfce!
> Thanks again for the suggestions.
>
> Al
>
> p.s.: now pandoc works as expected.

I don't want to sound insistent, but as a Linux user I personnaly 
recommend not to use "apt" to install and use python packages. Installed 
packages will soon or late become outdated or they will become a burden 
because you have less control on what you have installed and why.

I really like virtualenv for it's help in keeping things (system / 
python version / fooling around with new packages) separated. It's also 
the recommendation of the recommendation of the "Python Packaging 
Authority":
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/current.html#installation-tool-recommendations

Fabien

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