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1\begin{hcarentry}[updated]{Pandoc}
2\label{pandoc}
3\report{John MacFarlane}%11/09
4\status{active development}
5\participants{John MacFarlane, Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto, Eric Kow,
6Luke Plant, Justin Bogner}
7\makeheader
9Pandoc aspires to be the swiss army knife of text markup formats: it
10can read markdown and (with some limitations) HTML, LaTeX, and
11reStructuredText, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML,
12DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, RTF, groff man, MediaWiki markup,
13GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes
14extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more.
16There have been several releases since the last report, with many
17bug fixes and small improvements. There are two big architectural
18changes. First, pandoc no longer requires Template Haskell, which should
19make it more portable. Second, a new, flexible template system has been
20added, allowing users much more control over document headers and footers.
21Other major changes include support for xetex, support for reST tables,
22support for tables without header rows, support for formatting
23math as MathML, a new ``plain text'' output format, and a much
24more permissive HTML parser. The old \verb!hsmarkdown! and
25\verb!html2markdown! scripts have been removed; \verb!pandoc! itself can
26now do the work of \verb!html2markdown!. Summaries of the new features
27in each release are available on the (newly redesigned) website, along
28with full documentation and a new tutorial on using the pandoc
29library for structured text manipulation.
31\FurtherReading
32 \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/}
33\end{hcarentry}