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<!-- Do not edit this file. It is generated automatically from
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README.template and MANUAL.txt via the command:
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pandoc --lua-filter tools/update-readme.lua README.template -o README.md
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-->
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# Pandoc
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[](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases)
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[](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc)
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[](http://brewformulas.org/Pandoc)
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[](http://stackage.org/lts/package/pandoc)
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[](https://travis-ci.org/jgm/pandoc)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jgm/pandoc)
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[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
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[](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss)
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## The universal markup converter
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<div id="description">
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Pandoc is a [Haskell](https://www.haskell.org) library for converting
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from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses
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this library.
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Pandoc can read
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[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/),
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[CommonMark](http://commonmark.org), [PHP Markdown
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Extra](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/),
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[GitHub-Flavored
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Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/),
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[MultiMarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/), and (subsets
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of) [Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile),
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[reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html),
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[HTML](http://www.w3.org/html/), [LaTeX](http://latex-project.org),
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[MediaWiki markup](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting),
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[TWiki markup](http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules),
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[TikiWiki
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markup](https://doc.tiki.org/Wiki-Syntax-Text#The_Markup_Language_Wiki-Syntax),
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[Creole 1.0](http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0), [Haddock
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markup](https://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html),
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[OPML](http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html), [Emacs Org
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mode](http://orgmode.org), [DocBook](http://docbook.org),
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[JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov),
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[Muse](https://amusewiki.org/library/manual),
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[txt2tags](http://txt2tags.org), [Vimwiki](https://vimwiki.github.io),
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[EPUB](http://idpf.org/epub),
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[ODT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument), and [Word
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docx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML).
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Pandoc can write plain text,
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[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/),
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[CommonMark](http://commonmark.org), [PHP Markdown
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Extra](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/),
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[GitHub-Flavored
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Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/),
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[MultiMarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/),
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[reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html),
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[XHTML](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/),
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[HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/), [LaTeX](http://latex-project.org)
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(including [`beamer`](https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer) slide shows),
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[ConTeXt](http://www.contextgarden.net/),
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[RTF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format),
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[OPML](http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html), [DocBook](http://docbook.org),
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[JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov),
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[OpenDocument](http://opendocument.xml.org),
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[ODT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument), [Word
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docx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML), [GNU
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Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), [MediaWiki
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markup](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting), [DokuWiki
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markup](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki), [ZimWiki
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markup](http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Wiki_Syntax.html), [Haddock
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markup](https://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html),
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[EPUB](http://idpf.org/epub) (v2 or v3),
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[FictionBook2](http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:XML_Schema_Fictionbook_2.1),
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[Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile), [groff
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man](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man.7.html), [groff
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ms](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_ms.7.html), [Emacs Org
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mode](http://orgmode.org),
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[AsciiDoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/), [InDesign
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ICML](https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf),
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[TEI Simple](https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple),
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[Muse](https://amusewiki.org/library/manual),
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[PowerPoint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint) slide
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shows and [Slidy](http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/),
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[Slideous](http://goessner.net/articles/slideous/),
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[DZSlides](http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/),
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[reveal.js](http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/) or
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[S5](http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) HTML slide shows. It can also
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produce [PDF](https://www.adobe.com/pdf/) output on systems where LaTeX,
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ConTeXt, `pdfroff`, `wkhtmltopdf`, `prince`, or `weasyprint` is
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installed.
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Pandoc’s enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for tables,
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definition lists, metadata blocks, `Div` blocks, footnotes and
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citations, embedded LaTeX (including math), Markdown inside HTML block
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elements, and much more. These enhancements, described further under
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Pandoc’s Markdown, can be disabled using the `markdown_strict` format.
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Pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which
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parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the
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document (like an *abstract syntax tree* or AST), and a set of writers,
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which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus,
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adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or
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writer. Users can also run custom [pandoc
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filters](http://pandoc.org/filters.html) to modify the intermediate AST.
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Because pandoc’s intermediate representation of a document is less
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expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should not
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expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. Pandoc
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attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but not
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formatting details such as margin size. And some document elements, such
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as complex tables, may not fit into pandoc’s simple document model.
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While conversions from pandoc’s Markdown to all formats aspire to be
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perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than pandoc’s Markdown
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can be expected to be lossy.
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</div>
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## Installing
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Here’s [how to install pandoc](INSTALL.md).
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## Documentation
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Pandoc’s website contains a full [User’s
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Guide](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html). It is also available
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[here](MANUAL.txt) as pandoc-flavored Markdown. The website also
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contains some [examples of the use of
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pandoc](https://pandoc.org/demos.html) and a limited [online
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demo](https://pandoc.org/try).
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## Contributing
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Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please
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make sure to read [the contributor guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before
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opening a new issue.
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## License
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© 2006-2018 John MacFarlane (jgm@berkeley.edu). Released under the
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[GPL](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "GNU General Public License"),
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version 2 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind.
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(See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)
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