pandoc: Conversion between markup formats

The pandoc package

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Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, txt2tags, Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, groff man pages, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, and several kinds of HTML/javascript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js).

In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.

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Dependencies aeson (>=0.7.0.5 && <1.3), array (>=0.3 && <0.6), base (>=4.7 && <5), base64-bytestring (>=0.1 && <1.1), binary (>=0.5 && <0.9), blaze-html (>=0.5 && <0.10), blaze-markup (>=0.5.1 && <0.9), bytestring (>=0.9 && <0.11), cmark (==0.5.*), containers (>=0.1 && <0.6), data-default (>=0.4 && <0.8), deepseq (>=1.3 && <1.5), directory (>=1.2 && <1.4), doctemplates (==0.1.*), extensible-exceptions (==0.1.*), filemanip (==0.3.*), filepath (>=1.1 && <1.5), ghc-prim (>=0.2), haddock-library (>=1.1 && <1.5), hslua (>=0.3 && <0.5), HTTP (>=4000.0.5 && <4000.4), http-client (>=0.4.30 && <0.6), http-client-tls (>=0.2.4 && <0.4), http-types, JuicyPixels (>=3.1.6.1 && <3.3), mtl (==2.2.*), network (>=2), network-uri (==2.6.*), old-locale (>=1 && <1.1), old-time, pandoc, pandoc-types (==1.17.*), parsec (==3.1.*), process (>=1 && <1.5), random (>=1 && <1.2), scientific (>=0.2 && <0.4), SHA (==1.6.*), skylighting (>=0.1.1.4 && <0.2), syb (>=0.1 && <0.8), tagsoup (>=0.13.7 && <0.15), temporary (>=1.1 && <1.3), texmath (==0.9.*), text (>=0.11 && <1.3), time (>=1.2 && <1.7), unix (>=2.4 && <2.8), unordered-containers (==0.2.*), vector (>=0.10 && <0.13), wai (>=0.3), wai-extra, weigh (==0.0.*), xml (>=1.3.12 && <1.4), yaml (>=0.8.8.2 && <0.9), zip-archive (>=0.2.3.4 && <0.4), zlib (>=0.5 && <0.7) [details]
License GPL
Copyright (c) 2006-2017 John MacFarlane
Author John MacFarlane <[email protected]>
Maintainer John MacFarlane <[email protected]>
Category Text
Home page http://pandoc.org
Bug tracker https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues
Source repository head: git clone git://github.com/jgm/pandoc.git
Uploaded Tue Jan 31 15:06:09 UTC 2017 by JohnMacFarlane
Updated Sat Jun 17 21:59:21 UTC 2017 by JohnMacFarlane to revision 5
Distributions Arch:1.19.2.1, Debian:1.16.0.2, Fedora:1.19.1, FreeBSD:1.15.0.6, LTSHaskell:1.19.2.1, NixOS:1.19.2.1, Tumbleweed:1.19.2.1
Downloads 88666 total (1867 in the last 30 days)
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Status Docs available [build log]
Last success reported on 2017-01-31 [all 1 reports]
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Modules

[Index]

Flags

NameDescriptionDefaultType
embed_data_files

Embed data files in binary for relocatable executable.

DisabledAutomatic
trypandoc

Build trypandoc cgi executable.

DisabledAutomatic
weigh-pandoc

Build weigh-pandoc to measure memory usage.

DisabledAutomatic
https

Enable support for downloading of resources over https.

EnabledAutomatic
network-uri

Get Network.URI from the network-uri package

EnabledAutomatic
old-locale

Use old-locale and time < 1.5

DisabledAutomatic

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Maintainer's Corner

For package maintainers and hackage trustees

Readme for pandoc

Readme for pandoc-1.19.2.1

Pandoc

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The universal markup converter

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read Markdown, CommonMark, PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub-Flavored Markdown, MultiMarkdown, and (subsets of) Textile, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org mode, DocBook, txt2tags, EPUB, ODT and Word docx; and it can write plain text, Markdown, CommonMark, PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub-Flavored Markdown, MultiMarkdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML5, LaTeX (including beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, RTF, OPML, DocBook, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, DokuWiki markup, ZimWiki markup, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 or v3), FictionBook2, Textile, groff man pages, Emacs Org mode, AsciiDoc, InDesign ICML, TEI Simple, and Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js or S5 HTML slide shows. It can also produce PDF output on systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, or wkhtmltopdf is installed.

Pandoc's enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for footnotes, tables, flexible ordered lists, definition lists, fenced code blocks, superscripts and subscripts, strikeout, metadata blocks, automatic tables of contents, embedded LaTeX math, citations, and Markdown inside HTML block elements. (These enhancements, described further under Pandoc's Markdown, can be disabled using the markdown_strict input or output format.)

In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, which use regex substitutions, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.

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 Markdown can be expected to be lossy.

Installing

Here's how to install pandoc.

Documentation

Pandoc's website contains a full User's Guide. It is also available here as pandoc-flavored Markdown. The website also contains some examples of the use of pandoc and a limited online demo.

Contributing

Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please make sure to read the contributor guidelines before opening a new issue.

License

© 2006-2016 John MacFarlane ([email protected]). Released under the GPL, version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind. (See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)