Pandoc

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Pandoc
Original author(s) John MacFarlane
Initial release 10 August 2006; 18 years ago (2006-08-10)
Stable release 1.17.0.3 / 24 March 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-24)
Development status Active
Written in Haskell
Operating system Unix-like, OS X, Windows
Licence GNU General Public License
Website pandoc.org

Pandoc is a free and open-source software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars)[1][2][3][4] and as a basis for publishing workflows.[5][6][7] It was originally created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[8]

The program is used by Architect and RStudio to produce documents in a variety of formats from Markdown files which may include statistical analysis written in R and processed with Knitr.[9]

Supported file formats

Pandoc's most thoroughly supported file format is an extended version of Markdown, but it can also read many other forms of lightweight markup language, HTML, ReStructuredText, LaTeX, OPML, Org-mode, DocBook, and Office Open XML (Microsoft Word .docx).

It can be used to create files in many more formats, including Office Open XML, OpenDocument, HTML, Wiki markup, InDesign ICML, web-based slideshows,[10] ebooks,[11] OPML, and various TeX formats (through which it can produce a PDF). It has built-in support for converting LaTeX mathematical equations to MathML and MathJax, among other formats.

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.[12]

Integration with reference managers

An included module, pandoc-citeproc, allows the program to use data from reference management software such as BibTeX, EndNote, Mendeley, or Papers. It has the ability to integrate directly with Zotero.[13] 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. This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ See as an example Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The source file is written in Markdown.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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