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.{{Cite web|url=https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#description|title=Pandoc User's Guide|website=pandoc.org|at=Description|access-date=22 January 2019|quote=...one should not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but not formatting details...}}

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.{{Cite journal

| last = Fenner

| first = Martin

| title = From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step

| journal = Gobbledygook

| access-date = 27 June 2014

| date = 12 December 2013

| doi = 10.53731/r294649-6f79289-8cw0k

| url = http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/12/12/from-markdown-to-jats-xml-in-one-step/

| doi-access = free

}}

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.{{Cite web | title = Citations | work = Pandoc User's Guide | access-date = 2021-04-08 | url = https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citations }} 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. This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing in Markdown with inline citation keys.{{Cite journal | last = Tenen | first = Dennis | author2=Grant Wythoff | title = Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown | journal = The Programming Historian | access-date = 27 June 2014 | date = 19 March 2014 | issue = 3 | doi = 10.46430/phen0041 | url = http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown | doi-access = free}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Denlinger |first=Kyle |title=Research Guides: Zotero: Citations & Bibliographies |url=https://guides.zsr.wfu.edu/zotero/citations |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=guides.zsr.wfu.edu |language=en}}

The input format with the most support is an extended version of Markdown.{{Cite web | title = Pandoc's Markdown | work = Pandoc User's Guide | access-date = 2019-08-01 | url = https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown }} Notwithstanding, pandoc can also read in the following formats:

• Creole
• DocBook
• EPUB
• FictionBook (FB2)
• Haddock
• HTML
• Jira wiki markup
• Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)
• JSON
• LaTeX
• Lightweight markup language
• man
• Markdown: Strict, CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), MultiMarkdown (MMD) and Markdown Extra (PHP Extra) variants
• OpenDocument (ODT)
• OPML
• Office Open XML: Microsoft Word variant
• Org-mode
• reStructuredText
• Textile
• txt2tags (t2t)
• Wiki markup: MediaWiki, Muse, TikiWiki, TWiki and Vimwiki variants

Pandoc can create files in the following output formats, which are not necessarily the same set of formats as the input formats:

• AsciiDoc
• ConTeXt
• DocBook: Versions 4 and 5
• EPUB: Versions 2 and 3{{Cite web | last = Mullen | first = Lincoln | title = Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc | work = The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker | access-date = 27 June 2014 | date = 20 March 2012 | url = http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/make-your-own-e-books-with-pandoc/39067 }}
• FictionBook (FB2)
• Haddock
• HTML: HTML4 and HTML5 variants, respectively compliant with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and XHTML Strict
• InDesign ICML
• Jira wiki markup
• Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)
• JSON
• LaTeX
• man
• Markdown: Strict, CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), MultiMarkdown (MMD) and Markdown Extra (PHP Extra) variants
• OpenDocument (ODT/ODF)
• OPML
• Office Open XML: Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint variants
• Org-mode
• PDF (needs a third-party add-on like ConTeXt, pdfroff, wkhtmltopdf, weasyprint or prince){{Cite web|url=https://pandoc.org/getting-started.html#creating-a-pdf|title=Getting started with pandoc|website=pandoc.org|at=Creating a PDF|access-date=22 January 2019}}
• Plain text
• reStructuredText
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• TEI
• Texinfo
• Textile
• Web-based slideshows: LaTeX Beamer, Slideous, Slidy, DZSlides, reveal.js and S5 variantsSee as an example {{Cite web | last = MacFarlane | first = John | title = Pandoc for Haskell Hackers | location = BayHac 2014, Mountain View, CA | access-date = 27 June 2014 | date = 17 May 2014 | url = http://johnmacfarlane.net/BayHac2014/ }} The [http://johnmacfarlane.net/BayHac2014/slides.txt source file] is written in Markdown.
• Wiki markup: DokuWiki, MediaWiki, Muse, TikiWiki, TWiki and Vimwiki variants

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• Round-trip format conversion
• Help authoring tool

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