Pandoc

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If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.

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[edit] Overview

Pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, Textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, OPML, or Haddock markup to:

Pandoc is a Command line tool.

[edit] Features

Pandoc understands a number of useful markdown syntax extensions, including document metadata (title, author, date); footnotes; tables; definition lists; superscript and subscript; strikeout; enhanced ordered lists (start number and numbering style are significant); running example lists; delimited code blocks with syntax highlighting; smart quotes, dashes, and ellipses; markdown inside HTML blocks; and inline LaTeX. If strict markdown compatibility is desired, all of these extensions can be turned off.

Pandoc includes a powerful system for automatic citations and bibliographies, using the pandoc-citeproc, which is based on Andrea Rossato’s citeproc-hs.

Pandoc is available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, BSD

Pandoc can understand dc metadata and CSS files for ePub output along with a list of documents containing the eBook.

[edit] Sample

Generate the following file called Test1.md

 # Test!

This is a test of *pandoc*.

- list one
- list two

Now run the following command on the saved file:

pandoc test1.md -f markdown -t html -s -o test1.html

The filename test1.md tells pandoc which file to convert. The -s option says to create a “standalone” file, with a header and footer, not just a fragment. And the -o test1.html says to put the output in the file test1.html. Note that -f markdown and -t html could have been omitted, since the default is to convert from markdown to HTML, but it doesn’t hurt to include them.

Here is sample two: Save to mybook.txt

% My Book
% Sam Smith

This is my book!

# Chapter One

Chapter one is over.

# Chapter Two

Chapter two has just begun.

Now run the following command on the file:

pandoc mybook.txt -o mybook.epub

If you wanted an image in the book then add to mybook.txt:

![Juliet](images/sun.jpg)

Rerun pandoc and it will include the image in the eBook. The word(s) in the brackets is the caption for the figure with the rest is the path/filename of the file to load.

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