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% Pandoc
# Overview
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] and (subsets of) [reStructuredText], [HTML], and [LaTeX],
and it can write [markdown], [reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [ConTeXt],
[RTF], [DocBook XML], [groff man], and [S5] HTML slide shows.
Pandoc features
- Modular design, using separate writers and readers for each
supported format.
- A real markdown parser, not based on regex substitutions.
[More accurate] and [faster], in many cases, than `Markdown.pl`.
- Multiple output formats--HTML, Docbook XML, LaTeX, ConTeXt,
reStructuredText, RTF, groff man pages, S5 slide shows--all
generated natively, with no XSLT postprocessing.
- Unicode support.
- Optional "smart" quotes, dashes, and ellipses.
- Automatically generated tables of contents.
- [ASCIIMathML] support for equations in HTML.
- Extensions to markdown syntax:
+ Document metadata (title, author, date).
+ Footnotes, tables, and definition lists.
+ Superscripts, subscripts, and strikeout.
+ Inline LaTeX math and LaTeX commands.
+ Markdown inside HTML blocks.
+ Compatibility mode to turn off syntax entensions and emulate
`Markdown.pl`.
- Convenient wrapper scripts:
+ `html2markdown` makes it easy to produce a markdown version
of any web page.
+ `markdown2pdf` converts markdown to PDF in one step.
+ `hsmarkdown` is a drop-in replacement for `Markdown.pl`.
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix.
- Free software, released under the [GPL].
To see what pandoc can do, see the [demonstration page](examples.html).
# Documentation
- [User's Guide](README.html)
- [Demonstrations](examples.html)
- Man pages
- [`pandoc(1)`](pandoc1.html)
- [`markdown2pdf(1)`](markdown2pdf1.html)
- [`html2markdown(1)`](html2markdown1.html)
- [`hsmarkdown(1)`](hsmarkdown1.html)
- [Library documentation](doc/index.html) (for Haskell programmers)
- [Instructions for installing from source](INSTALL.html)
- [Changelog](changelog)
# Downloads
- [Source tarball].
To install, unpack the archive and follow the instructions in the
[INSTALL](INSTALL.html) file. You'll need the [GHC] Haskell compiler,
version 6.6 or higher.
- [MacOS X binary package].
To install, just double-click the package icon in the disk
image. See the [installation notes](osx-notes.html) for important
information about setting your `PATH`. Note: This package was
compiled on a G4 Mac; it will also work on an Intel Mac via emulation.
- [Windows binary package].
The zip file contains the `pandoc.exe` command-line program (which
you should extract from the zip archive and put somewhere in your
PATH). See the included file `README-WINDOWS.txt` for instructions
on using the program. Note: If you use [Cygwin], we recommend that
you compile Pandoc from source. This will give you access to the
wrapper scripts `markdown2pdf`, `html2markdown`, and `hsmarkdown`,
which are not included in the Windows binary package.
- [FreeBSD port].
- [Debian linux package] (thanks to Recai Oktaş).
To install, download the file and type:
sudo dpkg -i pandoc_0.3_i386.deb
# Code repository
Pandoc has a publicly accesible subversion repository at Google
Code (<http://code.google.com/p/pandoc>). To check out the latest,
bleeding-edge source code:
svn checkout http://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pandoc
# Reporting bugs
You may view existing bug reports and submit new ones at
<http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/issues/list>.
# Mailing lists
- [pandoc-announce]: Announcements of new releases only.
- [pandoc-discuss]: General discussion of pandoc.
# News
- Version 0.4 released (?? July 2007).
For users:
+ New output formats: ConTeXt and groff man.
+ Support for definition lists and tables.
+ Support for superscript, subscript, and strikeout.
+ Support for automatically generated tables of contents.
+ Automatically generated unique identifiers in HTML headers.
+ Markdown links now printed as inline links by default,
unless `--reference-links` option is specified.
+ Many bugs fixed.
For programmers:
+ Added a Text.Pandoc module that exports the main functions
and data structures. Library documentation includes a sample
program using the library.
Under the hood:
+ Refactored to avoid reliance on GHC's `Text.Regex`, which
is slow and does not support unicode.
+ Removed Key and Note block elements and simplified parsers.
+ Improved handling of character entities.
+ HTML output is now generated using `Text.XHtml`.
# Disclaimer
This is an early, "alpha" release. It carries no warranties of any
kind.
[More accurate]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl
[faster]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/Benchmarks
[ASCIIMathML]: http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html
[John MacFarlane]: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/
[markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[reStructuredText]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html
[S5]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
[HTML]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/
[LaTeX]: http://www.latex-project.org/
[ConTeXt]: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/
[RTF]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
[DocBook XML]: http://www.docbook.org/
[groff man]: http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man7/groff_man.7.html
[Haskell]: http://www.haskell.org/
[GHC]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
[GPL]: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
[Source tarball]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/detail?name=pandoc-0.4.tar.gz "Download source tarball from Pandoc's Google Code site"
[MacOS X binary package]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/detail?name=pandoc-0.4.dmg "Download Mac OS X disk image from Pandoc's Google Code site"
[Windows binary package]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/detail?name=pandoc-0.4.zip "Download Windows zip file from Pandoc's Google Code site"
[Cygwin]: http://www.cygwin.com/ "Cygwin - a linux-like environment for Windows"
[Debian linux package]: http://people.debian.org/~roktas/packages/pandoc_0.3_i386.deb
[FreeBSD port]: http://www.freshports.org/textproc/pandoc/
[pandoc-announce]: http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-announce
[pandoc-discuss]: http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-discuss
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