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| author | Kolen Cheung <christian.kolen@gmail.com> | 2017-10-26 17:55:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Kolen Cheung <christian.kolen@gmail.com> | 2017-10-26 17:55:45 -0700 |
| commit | 33ecec65257b3ce64d8381125e86fe3740dfd552 (patch) | |
| tree | f69c00dafda71fdd68d260a455cf8173ef1420d3 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | b3607ec3060a9a14503b3342936dd7390798e1e0 (diff) | |
CONTRIBUTING.md: sync a quote from MANUAL.txt
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| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTING.md | 8 |
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 99c281871..0a2602d06 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ Out of scope? A less than perfect conversion does not necessarily mean there's a bug in pandoc. Quoting from the MANUAL: -> Because Pandoc's intermediate representation of a document is less +> Because pandoc's intermediate representation of a document is less > expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should > not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. > Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but > not formatting details such as margin size. And some document elements, -> such as complex tables, may not fit into Pandoc's simple document -> model. While conversions from Pandoc's Markdown to all formats aspire -> to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than Pandoc's +> such as complex tables, may not fit into pandoc's simple document +> model. While conversions from pandoc's Markdown to all formats aspire +> to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than pandoc's > Markdown can be expected to be lossy. For example, both docx and odt can represent margin size, but because |