[Debugging Options] For converting to PDF: improve debugging options

[KurtPfeifle]

When converting to PDF, pandoc should allow (via a commandline switch such as --pdfdebug or similar) to preserve (or dump) the intermediate LaTeX code somewhere on the harddisk and issue a message where the *.tex (and maybe other log and auxiliary files from {pdf,lua,xe}latex runs) may be found.

[mszep]

Why not just output to latex format? -t latex -o file.tex should do what you want.

[mpickering]

You would want the -s flag as well.
On 28 Sep 2014 12:31, "Mark Szepieniec" notifications@github.com wrote:

Why not just output to latex format? -t latex -o file.tex should do what
you want.

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[KurtPfeifle]

@mszep: That's what I usually do. But it takes more time to match the exact settings when using longer, komplex command line options with PDF conversion. It would be faster to immediately have Pandoc telling me the location of the intermediate files by adding a simple additional flag to the command...

[mszep]

I know where you're coming from; in practice I tend to use use makefiles containing a call to pdflatex instead of using pandoc's pdf export functinality directly.

My feeling is that pandoc's direct pdf export is geared towards people who don't know and don't want to learn latex. Anyone else is probably better off exporting to latex, and taking care of compilation to pdf themselves.

[KurtPfeifle]

Great! Thanks a lot, John.