Universal markup converter
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.
It can convert from
bibtex
(BibTeX bibliography)biblatex
(BibLaTeX bibliography)bits
(BITS XML, alias
for jats
)commonmark
(CommonMark Markdown)commonmark_x
(CommonMark Markdown with
extensions)creole
(Creole 1.0)csljson
(CSL
JSON
bibliography)csv
(CSV table)tsv
(TSV
table)docbook
(DocBook)docx
(Word docx)dokuwiki
(DokuWiki markup)endnotexml
(EndNote XML
bibliography)epub
(EPUB)fb2
(FictionBook2
e-book)gfm
(GitHub-Flavored
Markdown),
or the deprecated and less accurate markdown_github
; use
markdown_github
only if you need extensions not supported in
gfm
.haddock
(Haddock
markup)html
(HTML)ipynb
(Jupyter
notebook)jats
(JATS XML)jira
(Jira/Confluence
wiki markup)json
(JSON version of native AST)latex
(LaTeX)markdown
(Pandoc’s
Markdown)markdown_mmd
(MultiMarkdown)markdown_phpextra
(PHP Markdown
Extra)markdown_strict
(original unextended
Markdown)mediawiki
(MediaWiki
markup)man
(roff man)muse
(Muse)native
(native Haskell)odt
(ODT)opml
(OPML)org
(Emacs Org mode)ris
(RIS
bibliography)rtf
(Rich Text
Format)rst
(reStructuredText)t2t
(txt2tags)textile
(Textile)tikiwiki
(TikiWiki
markup)twiki
(TWiki
markup)typst
(typst)vimwiki
(Vimwiki)It can convert to
asciidoc
(modern AsciiDoc as
interpreted by AsciiDoctor)asciidoc_legacy
(AsciiDoc as
interpreted by
asciidoc-py
).asciidoctor
(deprecated synonym for asciidoc
)beamer
(LaTeX beamer slide show)bibtex
(BibTeX bibliography)biblatex
(BibLaTeX bibliography)chunkedhtml
(zip archive of multiple linked HTML files)commonmark
(CommonMark Markdown)commonmark_x
(CommonMark Markdown with
extensions)context
(ConTeXt)csljson
(CSL
JSON
bibliography)docbook
or docbook4
(DocBook 4)docbook5
(DocBook 5)docx
(Word docx)dokuwiki
(DokuWiki markup)epub
or epub3
(EPUB v3 book)epub2
(EPUB v2)fb2
(FictionBook2
e-book)gfm
(GitHub-Flavored
Markdown),
or the deprecated and less accurate markdown_github
; use
markdown_github
only if you need extensions not supported in
gfm
.haddock
(Haddock
markup)html
or html5
(HTML,
i.e. HTML5/XHTML polyglot
markup)html4
(XHTML 1.0 Transitional)icml
(InDesign
ICML)ipynb
(Jupyter
notebook)jats_archiving
(JATS XML, Archiving and
Interchange Tag Set)jats_articleauthoring
(JATS XML, Article
Authoring Tag Set)jats_publishing
(JATS XML, Journal
Publishing Tag Set)jats
(alias for jats_archiving
)jira
(Jira/Confluence
wiki markup)json
(JSON version of native AST)latex
(LaTeX)man
(roff man)markdown
(Pandoc’s
Markdown)markdown_mmd
(MultiMarkdown)markdown_phpextra
(PHP Markdown
Extra)markdown_strict
(original unextended
Markdown)markua
(Markua)mediawiki
(MediaWiki
markup)ms
(roff ms)muse
(Muse)native
(native Haskell)odt
(OpenOffice text
document)opml
(OPML)opendocument
(OpenDocument)org
(Emacs Org mode)pdf
(PDF)plain
(plain text)pptx
(PowerPoint
slide show)rst
(reStructuredText)rtf
(Rich Text
Format)texinfo
(GNU Texinfo)textile
(Textile)slideous
(Slideous HTML
and JavaScript slide show)slidy
(Slidy HTML and
JavaScript slide show)dzslides
(DZSlides HTML5 +
JavaScript slide show)revealjs
(reveal.js HTML5 + JavaScript
slide show)s5
(S5 HTML and JavaScript
slide show)tei
(TEI Simple)typst
(typst)xwiki
(XWiki
markup)zimwiki
(ZimWiki
markup)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.
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 and Lua filters).
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.
Here’s how to install pandoc.
Pandoc’s website contains a full User’s Guide. It is also available here as pandoc-flavored Markdown. The website also contains some examples of the use of pandoc and a limited online demo.
Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please make sure to read the contributor guidelines before opening a new issue.
© 2006-2023 John MacFarlane ([email protected]). Released under the GPL, version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind. (See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)