Pandoc

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pandoc, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Hard to get PDF output right; the author couldn't figure out the configuration and found it unintuitive2026-05-30
Pandoc is painful to use because of the complexity of the tools it orchestrates2025-05-03
Cannot align table cells; output layout is unpredictable and undocumented online2024-02-02
Markdown H1s don't become Word titles, adding friction to the author's workflow2023-01-19
Package no longer provides the pandoc program, breaking existing scripts and expectations2023-01-19
Citations are really hard and confusing to do in Pandoc2022-10-10
Copy editor comments must be manually retyped into the markdown file2020-10-28
Conversion often fails, and getting papers to work needs custom templates and tinkering2018-08-28
Converting other markup to man pages never turns out well2015-11-06