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Concatenate block of lines with following block of lines

I am trying to process some text exported from lecture slides using pdf2text. The bullet points of some slides show up like this: title for the list - - - a bullet point text another bullet point ...
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Syntax highlighting of latex code blocks in ikiwiki

Is it possible to get syntax highlighting for LaTeX code blocks in ikiwiki (just something like it is automatically done in tex.sx)? To avoid misunderstandings: I don't mean math output produced for ...
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Generic Preprocessor adds extra whitespace

Following up on this article I use GPP to empower Markdown parser pandoc with some macros. Unfortunately, gpp seems to copy all whitespace into the result. For example, consider file test.md % Title ...
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How can I git diff markdown (.md) files

I have some markdown files but I can't git diff them. No result at the command line and not supported in gitg (visual git) Is that possible with the files as they are, without converting them to ...
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End of lines problem in emacs when editing markdown texts via It's All Text

I want to edit markdown source in emacs using the It's All Text plugin for firefox. In markdown you have to add two spaces to the line-end to get a new line. Suppose there is such a newline in a ...
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Is it possible to determine what is inside Debian package without installing it?

I need a markdown library for development - based on package names I could not understand which one I should install... den@playground:~$ sudo aptitude search markdown p html2markdown ...
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Avoid reformatting bullet lists with formatoptions+=a

I am using Vim with formatoptions +=a as described in Vim: word wrap for documents to format lines automatically while I write documents, expecially Markdown documents. My problem is that Vim wants ...