Pandoc

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]

Pandoc
Original author(s)John MacFarlane
Initial release10 August 2006 (2006-08-10)
Stable release
3.1.8[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 9 September 2023 (9 September 2023)
Repository
Written inHaskell
Operating systemUnix-like, Windows
PlatformCross-platform
LicenseGNU GPLv2
Websitepandoc.org

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

References
  1. "Release 3.1.8". 9 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. Mullen, Lincoln (23 February 2012). "Pandoc Converts All Your (Text) Documents". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
    - McDaniel, W. Caleb (28 September 2012). "Why (and How) I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text". W. Caleb McDaniel at Rice University. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
    - Healy, Kieran (23 January 2014). "Plain Text, Papers, Pandoc". Retrieved 27 June 2014.
    - Ovadia, Steven (2014). "Markdown for Librarians and Academics". Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian. 33 (2): 120–124. doi:10.1080/01639269.2014.904696. ISSN 0163-9269. S2CID 62762368.
  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.
    - Maxwell, John (26 February 2014). "On Pandoc". eBound Canada: Digital Production Workshop, Vancouver, BC. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
    - Maxwell, John (1 November 2013). "Building Publishing Workflows with Pandoc and Git". Publishing @ SFU. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
    - 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. "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. Mullen, Lincoln (20 March 2012). "Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  12. "Getting started with pandoc". pandoc.org. Creating a PDF. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  13. 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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