Converting markdown to djot

[mandolyte]

One of our teams is interested in using djot. But their existing base of markdown is really large.

So they asked for a way to convert the files. I thought a script that just used pandoc would work. But it didn't because:

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 3.1.1
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: /home/cecil/.local/share/pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2023 John MacFarlane. Web:  https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
$ pandoc -o test.djot test.md
[WARNING] Could not deduce format from file extension .djot
  Defaulting to html
$ 

Also tried ".dj"...

Anything else I can try?

[matklad]

You could try approach from https://github.com/jgm/djot.js

pandoc mydoc.md -f gfm -t json | djot -f pandoc -t djot > mydoc.dj

[mandolyte]

That works! Thanks