today's food-for-thought

breakfast:
what if we had a pre-processor for quarto?
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lunch:
what if we could make quarto behave more like Racket's pollen?
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tea:
what if that pre-processor was pandoc with a custom writer?

https://pandoc.org/custom-writers.html

Pandoc - Creating Custom Pandoc Writers in Lua

@baptnz i didn’t know about that  

so if i wanted to use Astrojs to attach things like tailwind or whatever other front end framework to html docs I could use a custom writer?

@robertmitchellv I imagine so, yes—but I have no hands-on experience with it myself (yet)
@baptnz i'm going to explore this a bit--it's a really fun way for me to learn more about pandoc as well; thanks 🙏
@robertmitchellv let me know how it goes—I don't know much about html/css frameworks but I'd like to get into it a bit more in the near future
@robertmitchellv oh, and it seems Quarto has some big changes in this area for the next release (I've only peeked at the source code so I'm missing the big picture, but includes something to do with custom writers in v1.3)
@baptnz that's so helpful thank you 🙏 going to go check that out now