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.TH PANDOC 1 "December 15, 2006" Pandoc "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
pandoc \- general markup converter
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpandoc\fR [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIinput\-file\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIPandoc\fR converts files from one markup format to another. It can
read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and
it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook
XML, and S5 HTML slide shows.
.PP
If no \fIinput\-file\fR is specified, input is read from STDIN.
Otherwise, the \fIinput\-files\fR are concatenated (with a blank
line between each) and used as input. Output goes to STDOUT by
default. For output to a file, use the \fB\-o\fR option:
.IP
.B pandoc \-o output.html input.txt
.PP
The input and output formats may be specified using command-line options
(see \fBOPTIONS\fR, below, for details). If these formats are not
specified explicitly, \fIPandoc\fR will attempt to determine them
from the extensions of the input and output filenames. If input comes
from STDIN or from a file with an unknown extension, the input is assumed
to be markdown. If no output filename is specified using the \fB\-o\fR
option, or if a filename is specified but its extension is unknown,
the output will default to HTML. Thus, for example,
.IP
.B pandoc -o chap1.tex chap1.txt
.PP
converts \fIchap1.txt\fR from markdown to LaTeX. And
.IP
.B pandoc README
.PP
converts \fIREADME\fR from markdown to HTML.
.PP
Pandoc's version of markdown is an extended variant of standard
markdown: the differences are described in the \fIREADME\fR file in
the user documentation. If standard markdown syntax is desired, the
\fB\-\-strict\fR option may be used.
.PP
\fIPandoc\fR uses the UTF\-8 character encoding for both input and output.
If your local character encoding is not UTF\-8, you should pipe input
and output through \fBiconv\fR:
.IP
.B iconv \-t utf\-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv \-f utf\-8
.PP
\fIPandoc\fR's HTML parser is not very forgiving. If your input is
HTML, consider running it through \fBtidy\fR(1) before passing it
to Pandoc. Or use \fBhtml2markdown\fR(1), a wrapper around \fBpandoc\fR.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-f \fIFORMAT\fB, \-r \fIFORMAT\fB, \-\-from=\fIFORMAT\fB, \-\-read=\fIFORMAT\fB
Specify input format.
.I FORMAT
can be
.B native
(native Haskell),
.B markdown
(markdown or plain text),
.B rst
(reStructuredText),
.B html
(HTML),
or
.B latex
(LaTeX).
.TP
.B \-t \fIFORMAT\fB, \-w \fIFORMAT\fB, \-\-to=\fIFORMAT\fB, \-\-write=\fIFORMAT\fB
Specify output format.
.I FORMAT
can be
.B native
(native Haskell),
.B markdown
(markdown or plain text),
.B rst
(reStructuredText),
.B html
(HTML),
.B latex
(LaTeX),
.B docbook
(DocBook XML),
.B s5
(S5 HTML and javascript slide show),
or
.B rtf
(rich text format).
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-standalone
Produce output with an appropriate header and footer (e.g. a
standalone HTML, LaTeX, or RTF file, not a fragment).
.TP
.B \-o FILE, \-\-output=FILE
Write output to \fIFILE\fR instead of STDOUT.
.TP
.B \-p, \-\-preserve-tabs
Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces.
.TP
.B \-\-tab-stop=\fITABSTOP\fB
Specify tab stop (default is 4).
.TP
.B \-\-strict
Use strict markdown syntax, with no extensions or variants.
.TP
.B \-R, \-\-parse-raw
Parse untranslatable HTML codes and LaTeX environments as raw HTML
or LaTeX, instead of ignoring them.
.TP
.B \-S, \-\-smart
Use smart quotes, dashes, and ellipses. (This option is significant
only when the input format is \fBmarkdown\fR. It is selected automatically
when the output format is \fBlatex\fR.)
.TP
.B \-m, \-\-asciimathml
Use ASCIIMathML to display embedded LaTeX math in HTML output.
.TP
.B \-i, \-\-incremental
Make list items in S5 display incrementally (one by one).
.TP
.B \-N, \-\-number-sections
Number section headings in LaTeX output. (Default is not to number
them.)
.TP
.B \-c \fICSS\fB, \-\-css=\fICSS\fB
Link to a CSS style sheet.
.I CSS
is the pathname of the style sheet.
.TP
.B \-H \fIFILE\fB, \-\-include-in-header=\fIFILE\fB
Include contents of \fIFILE\fR at the end of the header. Implies
\fB\-s\fR.
.TP
.B \-B \fIFILE\fB, \-\-include-before-body=\fIFILE\fB
Include contents of \fIFILE\fR at the beginning of the document
body.
.TP
.B \-A \fIFILE\fB, \-\-include-after-body=\fIFILE\fB
Include contents of \fIFILE\fR at the end of the document body.
.TP
.B \-C \fIFILE\fB, \-\-custom-header=\fIFILE\fB
Use contents of \fIFILE\fR as the document header (overriding the
default header, which can be printed by using the \fB\-D\fR option).
Implies \fB-s\fR.
.TP
.B \-D \fIFORMAT\fB, \-\-print-default-header=\fIFORMAT\fB
Print the default header for \fIFORMAT\fR (\fBhtml, s5, latex, docbook,
markdown, rst, rtf\fR).
.TP
.B \-T \fISTRING\fB, \-\-title-prefix=\fISTRING\fB
Specify \fISTRING\fR as a prefix to the HTML window title.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-debug
Print debugging information (names of input and output files) to
STDERR. Write output to STDOUT, even if an output file was specified
using the \fB\-o\fR option.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Print version.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show usage message.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBhtml2markdown\fR(1),
\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR(1).
The
.I README
file distributed with Pandoc contains full documentation.
The Pandoc source code and all documentation may be downloaded from
<http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/>.
.SH AUTHOR
John MacFarlane
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