Pandoc: Support Jira markup output (a form of textile)?

[hisplan]

Jira Markdown is slightly different from GitHub-flavored Markdown, and it's massively used by lots of software development teams (eBay, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Square, ...)

Any plan to support Jira Markdown?

Here's Jira's markdown spec:
https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all

[tarleb]

AFAIK Jira's markup language is Textile, not Markdown. Textile is fairly well supported by Pandoc, just use pandoc -f textile when converting Jira notes.

[hisplan]

I do not think JIRA markup is Textile. Just to be sure, I tried http://pandoc.org/try with some JIRA markdown syntax and confirmed that {code}...{code} or {{monospaced}} were not correctly converted to HTML or any other.

[tarleb]

You are right, I missed those {{mono}} and {code} issues. I'm not really sure _what_ language JIRA is using. It seems closer to Textile than to Markdown (and wikipedia lists JIRA as a project using textile). However, apparently it isn't standard textile either.

I'm not aware of any plan to support that dialect. From what I see, it should be possible to add it as a textile variant. It might actually be a nice task for someone trying to get their feet wet with pandoc/haskell.

[StevenACoffman]

From this Atlassian support source:

Jira Markdown and Textile are the same for the most used markups like:
Bullets, enumerable lists, headers, italic, bold, tables, html, quote ...

And different for other functions like:
Preformated text, links, identation, code block ...

[StevenACoffman]

For reference, J2M has some good regex's for the bits of Jira markdown that are not in Textile. Preformated text, links, code block at least. They are considering using pandoc for the much more comprehensive Textile support in this issue https://github.com/FokkeZB/J2M/issues/12

[retronym]

Here's a related effort I came across, but haven't tried:

https://github.com/HanStolpo/JiraStructureToDocx/tree/master/PandocReaderJira
https://hanstolpo.github.io/TalksAndStuff/slides/2014-05-12-A_Practical_Haskell_Retrospective_Using_Parsec_REST_and_Pandoc_to_Scrape_Jira.html#(23)

[jmls]

did anyone get anywhere with this ? I need to be able to edit jira descriptions in an external website.

[jeffmacdonald]

A coworker made this FWIW : https://github.com/stig/ox-jira.el I'm unsure of how applicable this is.

[tarleb]

@tupton created a custom Lua writer for JIRA: https://github.com/tupton/pandoc-jira-custom-writer

[mb21]

Do we have a reader as well? Or should be open a separate issue about that?

[tarleb]

No reader so far; separate issue would be good.