Extending pandoc to convert from plain markdown and rst to ecmarkup

[pombredanne]

Extending pandoc to convert from plain markdown and rst to ecmarkup would be an awesome thing as it would enable create Ecma spec docs faster. I am working on https://github.com/Ecma-TC54/tg2 :)

[pombredanne]

@jgm would you recommend to do this in Haskell or in Lua?

[michaelficarra]

I don't think this is something we want. The nice thing about ecmarkup is that it's just an HTML document, so you have a lot of control over the final produced document, and all of your regular HTML/web editors, tools, and libraries will just work. Why do you think markdown would be "faster"? And are there any other benefits you see, or is that it? Because I see pretty much only drawbacks.

Maybe you should try this as a separate preprocessor project first, and once you have something, you can share it with us.