Pandoc

The universal markup converter

Pandoc is a Haskell(link is external) library for converting from
one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this
library. It can convert from

It can convert to

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(link is external).

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(link is external) and
Lua filters(link is external)).

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.

Documentation

Pandoc’s website contains a full User’s
Guide(link is external). It is also available
here as pandoc-flavored Markdown. The website also
contains some examples of the use of
pandoc(link is external) and a limited online
demo(link is external).

Contributing

Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please
make sure to read the contributor guidelines before
opening a new issue.

License

© 2006-2022 John MacFarlane (jgm@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)). Released under the
GPL(link is external),
version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind.
(See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)