Pandoc WASM — bundling Pandoc flexibly

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Pandoc is now also available as a WASM binary. For those who don’t know, this allows you to use a browser engine to run binary tools bundled within other tools. This is how, for example, Quarto handles Mermaid diagrams. While for end users this isn’t so useful, it does help cross-platform use cases so if we are lucky enough to convince @KB so that Scrivener 4 were to finally switch from MMD to Pandoc, WASM may help. The current WASM binary download is 16MB compressed:

For general users, one cool use-case is you can now run pandoc locally without ever installing it: a web page runs the WASM binary on your computer, thus you can convert local docs and nothing is sent from your computer to the outside:

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I’m incredibly excited since this is the Pandoc GUI we’ve all been waiting for.

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The release of this web app also means files can be securely converted easily on phones and tablets.

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Hmm.

I’ve been working directly in Typst for the last year or so, and now have a substantial Scrivener-Typst template working, including Tufte-style layout if wanted, but there are still things to be sorted out before I post it here.

That said, what you say about phones and tablets and the Pandoc WASM s fundamentally interesting, as to date, I’ve only been thinking of Typst in the context of my Macs.

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Mark