Pandoc
Software for converting between text document formats
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Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars)[2] and as a basis for publishing workflows.[3] It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]
| Pandoc | |
|---|---|
| Original author | John MacFarlane |
| Initial release | 10 August 2006 |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Haskell |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| License | GNU GPLv2-or-later |
| Website | pandoc |
| Repository | |
Functionality
Pandoc dubs itself a "markup format" converter. It can take a document in one of the supported formats and convert only its markup to another format. Maintaining the look and feel of the document is not a priority.[5]
Plug-ins for custom formats can also be written in Lua, which has been used to create an exporting tool for the Journal Article Tag Suite, for example.[6]
CiteProc
An included CiteProc option allows pandoc to use bibliographic data from reference management software in any of five formats: BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON or CSL YAML, or RIS.[7] The information is automatically transformed into a citation in various styles (such as APA, Chicago, or MLA) using an implementation of the Citation Style Language.[7] This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing in Markdown with inline citation keys.[8] Or the program can be used to convert any bibliographic data stream in the accepted formats into a list of citations in a chosen style.[9]
Supported file formats
Input formats
The input format with the most support is Pandoc's extended version of Markdown.[10] Notwithstanding, pandoc can also read in the following formats:
- Bibliography data formats: BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON or CSL YAML, RIS, or EndNote XML
- Creole
- CSV and TSV tables
- DocBook
- EPUB
- FictionBook (FB2)
- Haddock
- HTML
- Jira wiki markup
- Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) and Book Interchange Tag Set (BITS)
- JSON
- Jupyter Notebook
- LaTeX
- man (roff) and mdoc
- Markdown: Strict, CommonMark, Djot, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), MultiMarkdown (MMD) and Markdown Extra (PHP Extra) variants
- OpenDocument (ODT)
- OPML
- Office Open XML: Microsoft Word variant
- Org-mode
- pod
- reStructuredText
- Rich Text Format (RTF)
- Textile
- txt2tags (t2t)
- Typst (typ)
- Wiki markup: MediaWiki, Muse, TikiWiki, TWiki and Vimwiki variants
Output formats
Pandoc can create files in the following output formats, the set of which is not the same as the set of input formats:
- AsciiDoc
- Bibliography data formats: BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON or CSL YAML
- ConTeXt
- DocBook: Versions 4 and 5
- EPUB: Versions 2 and 3[11]
- FictionBook (FB2)
- Haddock
- HTML: HTML4 and HTML5 variants, respectively compliant with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and XHTML Strict
- InDesign ICML
- Jira wiki markup
- Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)
- JSON
- Jupyter Notebook
- LaTeX
- man (roff)
- Markdown: Strict, CommonMark, Djot, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), MultiMarkdown (MMD) and Markdown Extra (PHP Extra) variants
- OpenDocument (ODT/ODF) and OpenDocument XML
- OPML
- Office Open XML: Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint variants
- Org-mode
- PDF (needs a third-party add-on like ConTeXt,
pdfroff,wkhtmltopdf,weasyprintorprince)[12] - Plain text
- reStructuredText
- Rich Text Format (RTF)
- TEI
- Texinfo
- Textile
- Typst (typ)
- Web-based slideshows: LaTeX Beamer, Slideous, Slidy, DZSlides, reveal.js and S5 variants[13]
- Wiki markup: DokuWiki, MediaWiki, Muse, TikiWiki, TWiki and Vimwiki variants
