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Pandoc Universal Markup Converter

Sham Sui Po, Hong Kong

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

Installation on Arch Linux​

pacman -S pandoc

pandoc -v
pandoc 2.19.2

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Examples​

To see the output created by each of the commands below, click on the name of the output file:

HTML fragment​

  • pandoc MANUAL.txt -o example1.html

Standalone HTML file​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -o example2.html
  • pandoc -s --toc -c pandoc.css -A footer.html MANUAL.txt -o example3.html

LaTeX​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -o example4.tex

From LaTeX to markdown​

  • pandoc -s example4.tex -o example5.text

reStructuredText​

  • pandoc -s -t rst --toc MANUAL.txt -o example6.text

Rich text format (RTF)​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -o example7.rtf

Beamer slide show​

  • pandoc -t beamer SLIDES -o example8.pdf

DocBook XML​

  • pandoc -s -t docbook MANUAL.txt -o example9.db

Man page​

  • pandoc -s -t man pandoc.1.md -o example10.1

ConTeXt​

  • pandoc -s -t context MANUAL.txt -o example11.tex

Converting a web page to markdown​

  • pandoc -s -r html http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ -o example12.text

From markdown to PDF​

  • pandoc MANUAL.txt --pdf-engine=xelatex -o example13.pdf

ipynb (Jupyter notebook)​

  • pandoc example15.md -o example15.ipynb

HTML slide shows​

  • pandoc -s --mathml -i -t dzslides SLIDES -o example16a.html
  • pandoc -s --webtex -i -t slidy SLIDES -o example16b.html
  • pandoc -s --mathjax -i -t revealjs SLIDES -o example16d.html

TeX math in HTML​

  • pandoc math.text -s -o mathDefault.html
  • pandoc math.text -s --mathml -o mathMathML.html
  • pandoc math.text -s --webtex -o mathWebTeX.html
  • pandoc math.text -s --mathjax -o mathMathJax.html
  • pandoc math.text -s --katex -o mathKaTeX.html

Syntax highlighting of delimited code blocks​

  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style pygments -o example18a.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style kate -o example18b.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style monochrome -o example18c.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style espresso -o example18d.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style haddock -o example18e.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style tango -o example18f.html
  • pandoc code.text -s --highlight-style zenburn -o example18g.html

OpenDocument XML​

  • pandoc MANUAL.txt -s -t opendocument -o example20.xml

ODT (OpenDocument Text, readable by OpenOffice)​

  • pandoc MANUAL.txt -o example21.odt

MediaWiki markup​

  • pandoc -s -t mediawiki --toc MANUAL.txt -o example22.wiki

EPUB ebook​

  • pandoc MANUAL.txt -o MANUAL.epub

Markdown citations​

  • pandoc -s --bibliography biblio.bib --citeproc CITATIONS -o example24a.html
  • pandoc -s --bibliography biblio.json --citeproc --csl chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl CITATIONS -o example24b.html
  • pandoc -s --bibliography biblio.yaml --citeproc --csl ieee.csl CITATIONS -t man -o example24c.1

Textile writer​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -t textile -o example25.textile

Textile reader​

  • pandoc -s example25.textile -f textile -t html -o example26.html

Org-mode​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -o example27.org

AsciiDoc​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -t asciidoc -o example28.txt

Word docx​

  • pandoc -s MANUAL.txt -o example29.docx

LaTeX math to docx​

  • pandoc -s math.tex -o example30.docx

DocBook to markdown​

  • pandoc -f docbook -t markdown -s howto.xml -o example31.text

MediaWiki to html5​

  • pandoc -f mediawiki -t html5 -s haskell.wiki -o example32.html

Chunked HTML​

  • pandoc -t chunkedhtml --split-level=2 --toc --toc-depth=2 --number-sections -o example33 MANUAL.txt

Docx with a reference docx​

  • pandoc --reference-doc twocolumns.docx -o UsersGuide.docx MANUAL.txt

Docx to markdown, including math​

  • pandoc -s example30.docx -t markdown -o example35.md

EPUB to plain text​

  • pandoc MANUAL.epub -t plain -o example36.text

Using a template to produce a table from structured data​

  • pandoc fishwatch.yaml -t rst --template fishtable.rst -o fish.rst # see also the partial species.rst

Converting a bibliography from BibTeX to CSL JSON​

  • pandoc biblio.bib -t csljson -o biblio2.json

Producing a formatted version of a bibliography​

  • pandoc biblio.bib --citeproc --csl ieee.csl -s -o biblio.html