Notes on unknitting

[maelle]

Not an actual goal of tinkr at the moment. How would one unknit a Word docx document?

• Need to convert the docx to something else first.

  • Not sure how one could map its XML to Commonmark XML.
  • One possibility is using Pandoc conversion to GFM, then apply to_xml and to_md to that Markdown.

• One would lose information about the chunk options anyway. And in case echo=FALSE, the whole chunks. It'd be cool to match the paragraphs etc. to paragraphs in the original R Markdown document. If changes were tracked, removed stuff could be more easily mapped. So one would need to unknit before accepting changes? Also related to https://github.com/ropenscilabs/trackmd

[maelle]

Inline evaluated code is a bit more problematic.

[maelle]

Linked to ropensci/unconf18#76 cc @goldingn (:wave: @goldingn, for now this package only does (R)md -> XML -> (R)md in order to be able to edit the XML)

[maelle]

See also https://github.com/noamross/rmd-rant by @noamross

[maelle]

cf also #11