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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95918e221 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +Pandoc +====== + +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 in the manual 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. + +[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ +[CommonMark]: http://commonmark.org +[PHP Markdown Extra]: https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ +[GitHub-Flavored Markdown]: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/ +[MultiMarkdown]: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ +[reStructuredText]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html +[S5]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ +[Slidy]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/ +[Slideous]: http://goessner.net/articles/slideous/ +[HTML]: http://www.w3.org/html/ +[HTML5]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ +[XHTML]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ +[LaTeX]: http://latex-project.org +[`beamer`]: https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer +[Beamer User's Guide]: http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf +[ConTeXt]: http://contextgarden.net/ +[RTF]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format +[DocBook]: http://docbook.org +[txt2tags]: http://txt2tags.org +[EPUB]: http://idpf.org/epub +[OPML]: http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html +[OpenDocument]: http://opendocument.xml.org +[ODT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument +[Textile]: http://redcloth.org/textile +[MediaWiki markup]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting +[DokuWiki markup]: https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki +[ZimWiki markup]: http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Wiki_Syntax.html +[TWiki markup]: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules +[Haddock markup]: https://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html +[groff man]: http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man7/groff_man.7.html +[Haskell]: https://www.haskell.org +[GNU Texinfo]: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ +[Emacs Org mode]: http://orgmode.org +[AsciiDoc]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ +[DZSlides]: http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/ +[Word docx]: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/openup/openxml/default.aspx +[PDF]: https://www.adobe.com/pdf/ +[reveal.js]: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ +[FictionBook2]: http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:XML_Schema_Fictionbook_2.1 +[InDesign ICML]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf +[TEI Simple]: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple + +[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) +[](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc) +[](http://stackage.org/lts/package/pandoc) +[](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases) +[](https://travis-ci.org/jgm/pandoc) + + +Documentation +------------- + +The full documentation can be found [online](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html) +and as pandoc-flavored Markdown in the file `MANUAL.txt`. + + +Contributing +------------ + +Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please make +sure to read [the contributor guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening a +new issue. + + +License +------- + +© 2006-2016 John MacFarlane (jgm@berkeley.edu). Released under the +[GPL], version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of +any kind. (See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.) + +[GPL]: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "GNU General Public License" |