# Pandoc [![github release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/jgm/pandoc.svg?label=current+release)](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases) [![hackage release](https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/pandoc.svg?label=hackage)](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc) [![homebrew](https://img.shields.io/homebrew/v/pandoc.svg)](http://brewformulas.org/Pandoc) [![stackage LTS package](http://stackage.org/package/pandoc/badge/lts)](http://stackage.org/lts/package/pandoc) [![travis build status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jgm/pandoc/master.svg?label=travis+build)](https://travis-ci.org/jgm/pandoc) [![appveyor build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/nvqs4ct090igjiqc?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jgm/pandoc) [![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPLv2+-lightgray.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) [![pandoc-discuss on google groups](https://img.shields.io/badge/pandoc-discuss-red.svg?style=social)](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss) ## The universal markup converter Pandoc is a [Haskell](http://haskell.org) library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert *from*
- `commonmark` ([CommonMark](http://commonmark.org) Markdown) - `creole` ([Creole 1.0](http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0)) - `docbook` ([DocBook](http://docbook.org)) - `docx` ([Word docx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML)) - `epub` ([EPUB](http://idpf.org/epub)) - `fb2` ([FictionBook2](http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:XML_Schema_Fictionbook_2.1) e-book) - `gfm` ([GitHub-Flavored Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/)), or the deprecated and less accurate `markdown_github`; use [`markdown_github`](#markdown-variants) only if you need extensions not supported in [`gfm`](#markdown-variants). - `haddock` ([Haddock markup](https://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html)) - `html` ([HTML](http://www.w3.org/html/)) - `jats` ([JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov) XML) - `json` (JSON version of native AST) - `latex` ([LaTeX](http://latex-project.org)) - `markdown` ([Pandoc’s Markdown](#pandocs-markdown)) - `markdown_mmd` ([MultiMarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/)) - `markdown_phpextra` ([PHP Markdown Extra](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/)) - `markdown_strict` (original unextended [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)) - `mediawiki` ([MediaWiki markup](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting)) - `muse` ([Muse](https://amusewiki.org/library/manual)) - `native` (native Haskell) - `odt` ([ODT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument)) - `opml` ([OPML](http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html)) - `org` ([Emacs Org mode](http://orgmode.org)) - `rst` ([reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html)) - `t2t` ([txt2tags](http://txt2tags.org)) - `textile` ([Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile)) - `tikiwiki` ([TikiWiki markup](https://doc.tiki.org/Wiki-Syntax-Text#The_Markup_Language_Wiki-Syntax)) - `twiki` ([TWiki markup](http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules)) - `vimwiki` ([Vimwiki](https://vimwiki.github.io))
It can convert *to*
- `asciidoc` ([AsciiDoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/)) - `beamer` ([LaTeX beamer](https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer) slide show) - `commonmark` ([CommonMark](http://commonmark.org) Markdown) - `context` ([ConTeXt](http://www.contextgarden.net/)) - `docbook` or `docbook4` ([DocBook](http://docbook.org) 4) - `docbook5` (DocBook 5) - `docx` ([Word docx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML)) - `dokuwiki` ([DokuWiki markup](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki)) - `epub` or `epub3` ([EPUB](http://idpf.org/epub) v3 book) - `epub2` (EPUB v2) - `fb2` ([FictionBook2](http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:XML_Schema_Fictionbook_2.1) e-book) - `gfm` ([GitHub-Flavored Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/)), or the deprecated and less accurate `markdown_github`; use [`markdown_github`](#markdown-variants) only if you need extensions not supported in [`gfm`](#markdown-variants). - `haddock` ([Haddock markup](https://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html)) - `html` or `html5` ([HTML](http://www.w3.org/html/), i.e. [HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/)/XHTML [polyglot markup](https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/)) - `html4` ([XHTML](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/) 1.0 Transitional) - `icml` ([InDesign ICML](http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/idml/idml-cookbook.pdf)) - `jats` ([JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov) XML) - `json` (JSON version of native AST) - `latex` ([LaTeX](http://latex-project.org)) - `man` ([groff man](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man.7.html)) - `markdown` ([Pandoc’s Markdown](#pandocs-markdown)) - `markdown_mmd` ([MultiMarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/)) - `markdown_phpextra` ([PHP Markdown Extra](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/)) - `markdown_strict` (original unextended [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)) - `mediawiki` ([MediaWiki markup](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting)) - `ms` ([groff ms](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_ms.7.html)) - `muse` ([Muse](https://amusewiki.org/library/manual)), - `native` (native Haskell), - `odt` ([OpenOffice text document](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument)) - `opml` ([OPML](http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html)) - `opendocument` ([OpenDocument](http://opendocument.xml.org)) - `org` ([Emacs Org mode](http://orgmode.org)) - `plain` (plain text), - `pptx` ([PowerPoint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint) slide show) - `rst` ([reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html)) - `rtf` ([Rich Text Format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format)) - `texinfo` ([GNU Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)) - `textile` ([Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile)) - `slideous` ([Slideous](http://goessner.net/articles/slideous/) HTML and JavaScript slide show) - `slidy` ([Slidy](http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/) HTML and JavaScript slide show) - `dzslides` ([DZSlides](http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/) HTML5 + JavaScript slide show), - `revealjs` ([reveal.js](http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/) HTML5 + JavaScript slide show) - `s5` ([S5](http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) HTML and JavaScript slide show) - `tei` ([TEI Simple](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple)) - `zimwiki` ([ZimWiki markup](http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Wiki_Syntax.html)) - the path of a custom lua writer, see [Custom writers](#custom-writers) below
Pandoc can also produce PDF output via LaTeX, Groff ms, or HTML. Pandoc’s enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for tables, definition lists, metadata blocks, footnotes, citations, math, and much more. See the User’s Manual below under [Pandoc’s Markdown](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown). 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 (an *abstract syntax tree* or AST), 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. Users can also run custom pandoc filters to modify the intermediate AST (see the documentation for [filters](https://pandoc.org/filters.html) and [lua filters](https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html)). Because pandoc’s intermediate representation of a document is less expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but not formatting details such as margin size. And some document elements, such as complex tables, may not fit into pandoc’s simple document model. While conversions from pandoc’s Markdown to all formats aspire to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than pandoc’s Markdown can be expected to be lossy. ## Installing Here’s [how to install pandoc](INSTALL.md). ## Documentation Pandoc’s website contains a full [User’s Guide](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html). It is also available [here](MANUAL.txt) as pandoc-flavored Markdown. The website also contains some [examples of the use of pandoc](https://pandoc.org/demos.html) and a limited [online demo](https://pandoc.org/try). ## Contributing Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please make sure to read [the contributor guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening a new issue. ## License © 2006-2018 John MacFarlane (jgm@berkeley.edu). Released under the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "GNU General Public License"), version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind. (See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)