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Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars)[2] and as a basis for publishing workflows.[3] It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]
Original author(s) | John MacFarlane |
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Initial release | 10 August 2006 |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Haskell |
Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
Platform | Cross-platform |
License | GNU GPLv2-or-later |
Website | pandoc |
Pandoc dubs itself a "markup format" converter. It can take a document in one of the supported formats and convert only its markup to another format. Maintaining the look and feel of the document is not a priority.[5]
Plug-ins for custom formats can also be written in Lua, which has been used to create an exporting tool for the Journal Article Tag Suite, for example.[6]
An included CiteProc option allows pandoc to use bibliographic data from reference management software in any of five formats: BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON or CSL YAML, or RIS.[7] The information is automatically transformed into a citation in various styles (such as APA, Chicago, or MLA) using an implementation of the Citation Style Language.[7] This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing in Markdown with inline citation keys.[8] Or the program can be used to convert any bibliographic data stream in the accepted formats into a list of citations in a chosen style.[9]
The input format with the most support is an extended version of Markdown.[10] Notwithstanding, pandoc can also read in the following formats:
Pandoc can create files in the following output formats, which are not necessarily the same set of formats as the input formats:
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