pandoc/doc/using-the-pandoc-api.md

% Using the pandoc API % John MacFarlane

intro - pandoc can be used as a library, to write your own custom conversion tools, or to power a web application.

Basic usage

a simple example

The Pandoc structure

blocks/inlines

Readers and writers

getReader, getWriter

Options

inc extensions

Builder

Inlines vs Inline, etc. monoid

example: report from CSV data

The PandocMonad class

motivations Class. advanced: custom PandocMonad instances

Templates and other data files

Handling errors and warnings

Generic transformations

Walk and syb for AST transformations

Filters

just the basic idea of toJSONFilter the rest can be left to filters.md

Self-contained

PDF

Creating a front-end

Text.Pandoc.App