Updated HCAR report.

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\report{John MacFarlane}%11/10 \report{John MacFarlane}%11/10
\status{active development} \status{active development}
\participants{Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto, Eric Kow, \participants{Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto, Eric Kow,
Luke Plant, Justin Bogner} Luke Plant, Justin Bogner, Paul Rivier, Nathan Gass, Puneeth Chaganti,
Josef Svennigsson, Etienne Millon, Joost Kremers}
\makeheader \makeheader
Pandoc aspires to be the swiss army knife of text markup formats: it Pandoc aspires to be the swiss army knife of text markup formats: it
can read markdown and (with some limitations) HTML, LaTeX, and can read markdown and (with some limitations) HTML, LaTeX, Textile, and
reStructuredText, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, reStructuredText, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML,
DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, RTF, groff man, MediaWiki markup, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, RTF, groff man, MediaWiki markup,
GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, EPUB, Slidy, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, EPUB, Textile, Emacs org-mode,
extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more. Slidy, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes extensions for LaTeX math,
tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more.
Since the last report, two new output formats have been added: Since the last report, many new features have been added and improvements
EPUB and Slidy HTML slide shows. Now it is possible to write made. Some highlights:
a book in markdown and produce an ebook with a single command! \begin{itemize}
New markdown extensions include grid tables and example lists that are \item Support for Textile input and output.
sequentially numbered throughout a document. \item Support for Emacs org-mode output.
\item A new ``builder'' module for constructing Pandoc documents programatically.
\item Support for \LaTeX math macros in markdown documents.
\item Support for automatic citations and bibliographies using Andrea
Rossato's citeproc-hs library.
\end{itemize}
These last two changes bring two of the most powerful features of \LaTeX
to pandoc.
\FurtherReading \FurtherReading
\url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/} \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/}