Pandoc custom writer for TASVideos forum markup, which is based on BBCode. With this, you can convert from many document formats to the format used for forum posts and direct messages on TASVideos.

Usage

Download the file tasvideos_forum.lua.

Run pandoc, passing it the option -t tasvideos_forum.lua (using the name of the custom writer file as if it were a format name).

For example, to convert a Markdown file to TASVideos forum markup:

pandoc -f markdown -t tasvideos_forum.lua README.md

The tasvideos_forum.lua filename may be given as a path, or the file may be stored under the Pandoc user data directory. See https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-readers-and-writers.

Accessing special features with classes and attributes

Some features of TASVideos forum markup can be accessed by setting classes and attributes on parts of the input. This is easiest to do with HTML input, or Markdown with the fenced_divs and bracketed_spans extensions.

For example, this HTML:

<div class="mark">
highlighted <span class="spoiler">and spoilered</span>
</div>

or this Markdown:

::: {.mark}
highlighted [and spoilered]{.spoiler}
:::

Renders to the following forum markup:

[highlight]highlighted [spoiler]and spoilered[/spoiler][/highlight]

These are the understood classes and what BBCode elements they correspond to:

Class	Alternative HTML	BBCode
mark	<mark>	[highlight]
spoiler		[spoiler]

The download filename for code blocks may be provided by a filename attribute, like so:

``` {filename=test.lua}
print("hello")
```

You can use "note" and "warning" alerts. The below Markdown input (with the alerts extension turned on):

> [!NOTE]
> A note

> [!WARNING]
> A warning

renders to:

[note]A note[/note]

[warning]A warning[/warning]

Raw output

To output TASVideos-specific markup such as [movie] and [post], use Pandoc raw attributes with a format name of tasvideos_forum:

This is `[frames]100[/frames]`{=tasvideos_forum} faster than `[movie]1234[/movie]`{=tasvideos_forum}.

``` {=tasvideos_forum}
[center]
More details are in [post=1234]this post[/post].
[/center]
```

Extensions

To enable an extension, provide it after the custom writer filename with a + sign. To disable, use a - sign.

pandoc -f markdown -t tasvideos_forum.lua+embed_resources README.md

Supported extensions:

Extension	Effect
embed_resources	Embed image data for the [img] tag as a data URI, rather than a link. (Like the --embed-resources option of pandoc.) Default disabled.

To clone this repository

fossil clone https://chiselapp.com/user/Sand/repository/tasvideos-pandoc

See the Fossil quick start.

External links

• TASVideos thread
• Pandoc discussion