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<!-- Do not edit this file. It is generated automatically from
README.template and MANUAL.txt via the command:
pandoc --lua-filter tools/update-readme.lua README.template -o README.md
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# Pandoc
[](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases)
[](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc)
[](http://brewformulas.org/Pandoc)
[](http://stackage.org/lts/package/pandoc)
[](https://travis-ci.org/jgm/pandoc)
[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jgm/pandoc)
[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
[](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss)
## The universal markup converter
Pandoc is a \[Haskell\] library for converting from one markup format to
another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert
*from*
<div id="input-formats">
- `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))
- `gfm` ([GitHub-Flavored
Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/)),
or `markdown_github`, which provides deprecated and less accurate
support for Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead,
unless you need to use extensions other than `smart`.
- `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))
</div>
It can convert *to*
<div id="output-formats">
- `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 `markdown_github`, which provides deprecated and less accurate
support for Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead,
unless you use extensions that do not work with `gfm`.
- `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
</div>
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.)
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