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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 [much faster] than `Markdown.pl`.
- Also parses (subsets of) reStructuredText, LaTeX, and HTML.
- Multiple output formats: HTML, Docbook XML, LaTeX, ConTeXt,
reStructuredText, Markdown, RTF, groff man pages, S5 slide shows.
- 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.
+ Enhanced ordered lists: start number and numbering style
are significant.
+ 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)
- [Installation instructions](INSTALL.html)
- [Changelog](changelog)
# Downloads
For installation instructions for all architectures, see
[INSTALL](INSTALL.html). Note that pandoc is in the [MacPorts],
[Debian unstable], and [FreeBSD ports] repositories.
Abhishek Dasgupta has also contributed an [Arch linux PKGBUILD script].
- [Source tarball]
- [Windows binary package]
# 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 0.43 released (September 2, 2007).
+ HUGE increase in performance: markdown is parsed five times
faster than with 0.42 on large benchmark files.
+ Prettyprinting library used in LaTeX writer, so that LaTeX output
is wrapped and intelligently indented.
+ Fixed bugs in LaTeX ordered lists and LaTeX command and environment
parsers.
+ Blank lines are no longer required after code blocks.
+ Fixed inline code parsing so that it uses the method of Markdown.pl:
the delimiters are blocks of N `` ` `` characters not followed by another
`` ` `` character. For example:
```` ` h ``` i ` ```` -> `<code>h ``` i</code>`.
+ Markdown writer escapes paragraphs that begin like list items.
+ MacPorts Portfile now installs library as well as executable.
+ Added pandocwiki demonstration to the website.
- Version 0.42 released (August 26, 2007).
+ Fixes bugs in ordered list handling, LaTeX footnotes,
UTF8 in include files, and HTML tables. See [changelog] for details.
+ Added new rule for enhanced ordered lists: capital letters
followed by periods must be separated from the list item by
two spaces, to avoid misinterpretation of initials. See
[README](README.html#lists) for details.
+ Improved strict markdown compatibility.
+ OSX packages are no longer supported. There were too many issues with
dynamic libraries. Instead, a MacPorts Portfile is now provided.
+ Exposed Text.Pandoc.ASCIIMathML.
- Version 0.41 released (August 19, 2007).
+ Fixes bugs in the handling of ordered lists and raw HTML.
For details, see the [changelog].
- Version 0.4 released (August 15, 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.
+ Enhanced ordered lists (start number and list number style
are now significant).
+ 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
[much 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-@VERSION@.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-@VERSION@.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-@VERSION@.zip "Download Windows zip file from Pandoc's Google Code site"
[Debian unstable]: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/pandoc
[FreeBSD ports]: http://www.freshports.org/textproc/pandoc/
[Arch linux PKGBUILD script]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=12751&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pandoc&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=nd
[MacPorts]: http://www.macports.org/
[pandoc-announce]: http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-announce
[pandoc-discuss]: http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-discuss
[changelog]: changelog
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