diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index b6bf94e96..9baae7eb6 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -14,21 +14,21 @@ Pandoc is a [Haskell] library for converting from one markup format to
another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
[Markdown], [CommonMark], [PHP Markdown Extra], [GitHub-Flavored
Markdown], [MultiMarkdown], and (subsets of) [Textile],
-[reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [MediaWiki markup], [TWiki markup],
-[TikiWiki markup], [Creole 1.0], [Haddock markup], [OPML], [Emacs Org mode],
-[DocBook], [Muse], [txt2tags], [Vimwiki], [EPUB], [ODT], and [Word docx];
-and it can write plain text, [Markdown], [CommonMark], [PHP Markdown
-Extra], [GitHub-Flavored Markdown], [MultiMarkdown],
-[reStructuredText], [XHTML], [HTML5], [LaTeX] \(including
-[`beamer`] slide shows\), [ConTeXt], [RTF], [OPML], [DocBook],
-[OpenDocument], [ODT], [Word docx], [GNU Texinfo], [MediaWiki
-markup], [DokuWiki markup], [ZimWiki markup], [Haddock markup],
-[EPUB] \(v2 or v3\), [FictionBook2], [Textile], [groff man],
+[reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [MediaWiki markup], [TWiki
+markup], [TikiWiki markup], [Creole 1.0], [Haddock markup], [OPML],
+[Emacs Org mode], [DocBook], [Muse], [txt2tags], [Vimwiki], [EPUB],
+[ODT], and [Word docx]; and it can write plain text, [Markdown],
+[CommonMark], [PHP Markdown Extra], [GitHub-Flavored Markdown],
+[MultiMarkdown], [reStructuredText], [XHTML], [HTML5], [LaTeX]
+\(including [`beamer`] slide shows\), [ConTeXt], [RTF], [OPML],
+[DocBook], [OpenDocument], [ODT], [Word docx], [GNU Texinfo],
+[MediaWiki markup], [DokuWiki markup], [ZimWiki markup], [Haddock
+markup], [EPUB] \(v2 or v3\), [FictionBook2], [Textile], [groff man],
[groff ms], [Emacs Org mode], [AsciiDoc], [InDesign ICML], [TEI
-Simple], [Muse] and [Slidy], [Slideous], [DZSlides], [reveal.js]
-or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce [PDF] output on
-systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`, `wkhtmltopdf`,
-`prince`, or `weasyprint` is installed.
+Simple], [Muse], [PowerPoint] slide shows and [Slidy], [Slideous],
+[DZSlides], [reveal.js] or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce
+[PDF] output on systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`,
+`wkhtmltopdf`, `prince`, or `weasyprint` is installed.
Pandoc's enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for [footnotes],
[tables], flexible [ordered lists], [definition lists], [fenced code
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Markdown can be expected to be lossy.
[InDesign ICML]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf
[TEI Simple]: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple
[Muse]: https://amusewiki.org/library/manual
+[PowerPoint]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
[Vimwiki]: https://vimwiki.github.io
Using `pandoc`
@@ -303,36 +304,35 @@ General options
(original unextended Markdown), `markdown_phpextra` (PHP Markdown
Extra), `markdown_mmd` (MultiMarkdown), `gfm` (GitHub-Flavored
Markdown), `commonmark` (CommonMark Markdown), `rst`
- (reStructuredText), `html4` (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), `html`
- or `html5` (HTML5/XHTML [polyglot markup]), `latex`
- (LaTeX), `beamer` (LaTeX beamer slide show), `context` (ConTeXt),
- `man` (groff man), `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup),
- `dokuwiki` (DokuWiki markup), `zimwiki` (ZimWiki markup),
- `textile` (Textile), `org` (Emacs Org mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo),
- `opml` (OPML), `docbook` or `docbook4` (DocBook 4), `docbook5`
- (DocBook 5), `jats` (JATS XML), `opendocument` (OpenDocument),
- `odt` (OpenOffice text document), `docx` (Word docx), `haddock`
- (Haddock markup), `rtf` (rich text format), `epub2` (EPUB v2 book),
- `epub` or `epub3` (EPUB v3), `fb2` (FictionBook2 e-book),
- `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `icml` (InDesign ICML), `tei` (TEI
- Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and JavaScript slide show),
- `slideous` (Slideous 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), or the path of a custom
- lua writer (see [Custom writers], below). (`markdown_github`
- provides deprecated and less accurate support for
- Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead, unless
- you use extensions that do not work with `gfm`.) Note that `odt`,
- `epub`, and `epub3` output will not be directed to *stdout*;
- an output filename must be specified using the `-o/--output`
- option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`, `latex`,
- `beamer`, `html4`, or `html5`, the output will be rendered as
- literate Haskell source: see [Literate Haskell support],
- below. Markdown syntax extensions can be individually
- enabled or disabled by appending `+EXTENSION` or
- `-EXTENSION` to the format name, as described above under `-f`.
- See `--list-output-formats` and `--list-extensions`, below.
+ (reStructuredText), `html4` (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), `html` or
+ `html5` (HTML5/XHTML [polyglot markup]), `latex` (LaTeX), `beamer`
+ (LaTeX beamer slide show), `context` (ConTeXt), `man` (groff man),
+ `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup), `dokuwiki` (DokuWiki markup),
+ `zimwiki` (ZimWiki markup), `textile` (Textile), `org` (Emacs Org
+ mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo), `opml` (OPML), `docbook` or
+ `docbook4` (DocBook 4), `docbook5` (DocBook 5), `jats` (JATS XML),
+ `opendocument` (OpenDocument), `odt` (OpenOffice text document),
+ `docx` (Word docx), `haddock` (Haddock markup), `rtf` (rich text
+ format), `epub2` (EPUB v2 book), `epub` or `epub3` (EPUB v3),
+ `fb2` (FictionBook2 e-book), `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `icml`
+ (InDesign ICML), `tei` (TEI Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and
+ JavaScript slide show), `slideous` (Slideous 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), `pptx` (PowerPoint slide show) or
+ the path of a custom lua writer (see [Custom writers],
+ below). (`markdown_github` provides deprecated and less accurate
+ support for Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead,
+ unless you use extensions that do not work with `gfm`.) Note that
+ `odt`, `epub`, and `epub3` output will not be directed to
+ *stdout*; an output filename must be specified using the
+ `-o/--output` option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`,
+ `latex`, `beamer`, `html4`, or `html5`, the output will be
+ rendered as literate Haskell source: see [Literate Haskell
+ support], below. Markdown syntax extensions can be individually
+ enabled or disabled by appending `+EXTENSION` or `-EXTENSION` to
+ the format name, as described above under `-f`. See
+ `--list-output-formats` and `--list-extensions`, below.
`-o` *FILE*, `--output=`*FILE*
@@ -3891,7 +3891,8 @@ Producing slide shows with pandoc
You can use pandoc to produce an HTML + JavaScript slide presentation
that can be viewed via a web browser. There are five ways to do this,
using [S5], [DZSlides], [Slidy], [Slideous], or [reveal.js].
-You can also produce a PDF slide show using LaTeX [`beamer`].
+You can also produce a PDF slide show using LaTeX [`beamer`], or
+slides shows in Microsoft [PowerPoint] format.
Here's the Markdown source for a simple slide show, `habits.txt`:
@@ -3953,6 +3954,10 @@ To produce a PDF slide show using beamer, type
Note that a reveal.js slide show can also be converted to a PDF
by printing it to a file from the browser.
+To produce a Powerpoint slide show, type
+
+ pandoc habits.txt -o habits.pptx
+
Structuring the slide show
--------------------------
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa3d46c71..5f490cb19 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ Extra], [GitHub-Flavored Markdown], [MultiMarkdown],
markup], [DokuWiki markup], [ZimWiki markup], [Haddock markup],
[EPUB] \(v2 or v3\), [FictionBook2], [Textile], [groff man],
[groff ms], [Emacs Org mode], [AsciiDoc], [InDesign ICML], [TEI
-Simple], [Muse] and [Slidy], [Slideous], [DZSlides], [reveal.js]
-or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce [PDF] output on
-systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`, `wkhtmltopdf`,
+Simple], [Muse], [PowerPoint] slide shows and [Slidy], [Slideous],
+[DZSlides], [reveal.js] or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce
+[PDF] output on systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`, `wkhtmltopdf`,
`prince`, or `weasyprint` is installed.
Pandoc's enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for [footnotes],
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Markdown can be expected to be lossy.
[InDesign ICML]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf
[TEI Simple]: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple
[Muse]: https://amusewiki.org/library/manual
+[PowerPoint]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
[Vimwiki]: https://vimwiki.github.io