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diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal index 6771a2f57..5dda339c3 100644 --- a/pandoc.cabal +++ b/pandoc.cabal @@ -15,28 +15,22 @@ Tested-With: GHC == 7.4.2, GHC == 7.6.3, GHC == 7.8.4, GHC == 7.10.2 Synopsis: Conversion between markup formats Description: 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) HTML, - reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, MediaWiki markup, TWiki - markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, txt2tags, - Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and it can write - Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX, - ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, OpenDocument, ODT, + this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and + (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, + MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, + Emacs Org-Mode, txt2tags, Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and + it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, + LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, Textile, groff man pages, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, and several kinds of HTML/javascript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js). . - Pandoc extends standard markdown syntax with footnotes, - embedded LaTeX, definition lists, tables, and other - features. A compatibility mode is provided for those - who need a drop-in replacement for Markdown.pl. - . - In contrast to 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, + In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown + to HTML, 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. |