Pandoc

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Pandoc
Original author(s) John MacFarlane
Initial release10 August 2006(18 years ago) (2006-08-10)
Stable release
3.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 29 July 2024(53 days ago) (29 July 2024)
Repository
Written in Haskell
Operating system Unix-like, Windows
Platform Cross-platform
License GNU GPLv2-or-later
Website pandoc.org

Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) [2] and as a basis for publishing workflows. [3] It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley. [4]

Contents

Functionality

Pandoc dubs itself a "markup format" converter. It can take a document in one of the supported formats and convert only its markup to another format. Maintaining the look and feel of the document is not a priority. [5]

Plug-ins for custom formats can also be written in Lua, which has been used to create an exporting tool for the Journal Article Tag Suite, for example. [6]

CiteProc

An included CiteProc option allows pandoc to use bibliographic data from reference management software in any of five formats: BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON or CSL YAML, or RIS. [7] The information is automatically transformed into a citation in various styles (such as APA, Chicago, or MLA) using an implementation of the Citation Style Language. [7] This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing in Markdown with inline citation keys. [8] Or the program can be used to convert any bibliographic data stream in the accepted formats into a list of citations in a chosen style. [9]

Supported file formats

Input formats

The input format with the most support is an extended version of Markdown. [10] Notwithstanding, pandoc can also read in the following formats:

Output formats

Pandoc can create files in the following output formats, which are not necessarily the same set of formats as the input formats:

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ Mullen, Lincoln (23 February 2012). "Pandoc Converts All Your (Text) Documents". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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  3. ↑ Till, Kaitlyn; Simas, Shed; Larkai, Velma (14 April 2014). "The Flying Narwhal: Small mag workflow". Publishing @ SFU. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
    - Maxwell, John (1 November 2013). "Building Publishing Workflows with Pandoc and Git". Publishing @ SFU. Retrieved 27 June 2014.[ permanent dead link ]
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    - Krewinkel, Albert; Robert Winkler (8 May 2017). "Formatting Open Science: agilely creating multiple document formats for academic manuscripts with Pandoc Scholar". PeerJ Computer Science. 3: e112. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.112 . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "John MacFarlane". Department of Philosophy. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Pandoc User's Guide". pandoc.org. Description. Retrieved 22 January 2019. ...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...
  6. ↑ Fenner, Martin (12 December 2013). "From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step". Gobbledygook. doi:10.53731/r294649-6f79289-8cw0k . Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Citations". Pandoc User's Guide. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  8. ↑ Tenen, Dennis; Grant Wythoff (19 March 2014). "Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown". The Programming Historian (3). doi: 10.46430/phen0041 . Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  9. ↑ Denlinger, Kyle. "Research Guides: Zotero: Citations & Bibliographies". guides.zsr.wfu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  10. ↑ "Pandoc's Markdown". Pandoc User's Guide. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  11. 1 2 "pandoc 3.1.12 (2024-02-14)". pandoc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  12. ↑ Mullen, Lincoln (20 March 2012). "Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  13. ↑ "Getting started with pandoc". pandoc.org. Creating a PDF. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  14. ↑ See as an example MacFarlane, John (17 May 2014). "Pandoc for Haskell Hackers". BayHac 2014, Mountain View, CA. Retrieved 27 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) The source file is written in Markdown.
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