Removed markdown2pdf and documentation.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0bf77ca54..89a5d3412 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ and [LaTeX]; and it can write plain text, [markdown], [reStructuredText],
 [XHTML], [HTML 5], [LaTeX], [LaTeX beamer], [ConTeXt], [RTF], [DocBook XML],
 [OpenDocument XML], [ODT], [Word docx], [GNU Texinfo], [MediaWiki markup], [EPUB],
 [Textile], [groff man] pages, [Emacs Org-Mode], [AsciiDoc], and [Slidy],
-[DZSlides], or [S5] HTML slide shows.
+[DZSlides], or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce [PDF] output
+on systems where LaTeX is installed.
 
 Pandoc's enhanced version of markdown includes syntax for footnotes,
 tables, flexible ordered lists, definition lists, delimited code blocks,
@@ -34,14 +35,15 @@ 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.
 
-Using Pandoc
-------------
+Using `pandoc`
+--------------
 
 If no *input-file* is specified, input is read from *stdin*.
 Otherwise, the *input-files* are concatenated (with a blank
 line between each) and used as input.  Output goes to *stdout* by
 default (though output to *stdout* is disabled for the `odt`, `docx`,
-and `epub` output formats).  For output to a file, use the `-o` option:
+`pdf`, and `epub` output formats).  For output to a file, use the
+`-o` option:
 
     pandoc -o output.html input.txt
 
@@ -89,36 +91,15 @@ should pipe input and output through `iconv`:
 
     iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8
 
-Wrappers
-========
-
 `markdown2pdf`
 --------------
 
-The standard Pandoc installation includes `markdown2pdf`, a wrapper
-around `pandoc` and `pdflatex` that produces PDFs directly from markdown
-sources. The default behavior of `markdown2pdf` is to create a file with
-the same base name as the first argument and the extension `pdf`; thus,
-for example,
-
-    markdown2pdf sample.txt endnotes.txt
-
-will produce `sample.pdf`.  An output file
-name can be specified explicitly using the `-o` option:
-
-    markdown2pdf -o book.pdf chap1 chap2
-
-If no input file is specified, input will be taken from *stdin*.
-All of `pandoc`'s options will work with `markdown2pdf` as well.
-
-`markdown2pdf` assumes that `pdflatex` is in the path.  It also
-assumes that the following LaTeX packages are available:
-`unicode`, `fancyhdr` (if you have verbatim text in footnotes),
-`graphicx` (if you use images), `array` (if you use tables),
-and `ulem` (if you use strikeout text).  If they are not already
-included in your LaTeX distribution, you can get them from
-[CTAN]. A full [TeX Live] or [MacTeX] distribution will have all of
-these packages.
+Earlier versions of pandoc came with a program, `markdown2pdf`,
+that used pandoc and pdflatex to produce a PDF.  This is no
+longer needed, since `pandoc` now has a `pdf` output format.
+Note that whereas `markdown2pdf` would create an ouput file
+based on the input file name, `pandoc` requires that you specify
+the output filename explicitly.
 
 `hsmarkdown`
 ------------
@@ -158,12 +139,12 @@ Options
     (DocBook XML), `opendocument` (OpenDocument XML), `odt` (OpenOffice text
     document), `docx` (Word docx), `epub` (EPUB book), `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc),
     `slidy` (Slidy HTML and javascript slide show), `dzslides` (HTML5 +
-    javascript slide show), `s5` (S5 HTML and javascript slide show), or
-    `rtf` (rich text format). Note that `odt` and `epub` output will not be
-    directed to *stdout*; an output filename must be specified using the
-    `-o/--output` option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`, `latex`,
-    `html`, or `html5`, the output will be rendered as literate Haskell source:
-    see [Literate Haskell support](#literate-haskell-support), below.
+    javascript slide show), `s5` (S5 HTML and javascript slide show),
+    `rtf` (rich text format), or `pdf` (PDF). Note that `odt` and `epub` output
+    will not be directed to *stdout*; an output filename must be specified
+    using the `-o/--output` option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`,
+    `latex`, `html`, or `html5`, the output will be rendered as literate Haskell
+    source: see [Literate Haskell support](#literate-haskell-support), below.
 
 `-s`, `--standalone`
 :   Produce output with an appropriate header and footer (e.g. a
@@ -172,7 +153,7 @@ Options
 `-o` *FILE*, `--output=`*FILE*
 :   Write output to *FILE* instead of *stdout*.  If *FILE* is
     `-`, output will go to *stdout*.  (Exception: if the output
-    format is `odt`, `docx`, or `epub`, output to stdout is disabled.)
+    format is `odt`, `docx`, `pdf`, or `epub`, output to stdout is disabled.)
 
 `-p`, `--preserve-tabs`
 :   Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces (the default).
@@ -1937,8 +1918,8 @@ Producing slide shows with Pandoc
 You can use Pandoc to produce an HTML + javascript slide presentation
 that can be viewed via a web browser.  There are three ways to do this,
 using [S5], [DZSlides], or [Slidy].  You can also produce a PDF slide
-show using [LaTeX beamer]: just pass the `--beamer` option to
-`markdown2pdf`.
+show using [LaTeX beamer]: just use the `--beamer` option with `pdf`
+output.
 
 Here's the markdown source for a simple slide show, `eating.txt`:
 
@@ -2094,3 +2075,4 @@ Christopher Sawicki, Kelsey Hightower.
 [DZSlides]: http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/
 [ISO 8601 format]: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
 [Word docx]: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/openup/openxml/default.aspx
+[PDF]: http://www.adobe.com/pdf/
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