@@ -14,21 +14,21 @@ Pandoc is a [Haskell] library for converting from one markup format to
1414another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
1515[Markdown], [CommonMark], [PHP Markdown Extra], [GitHub-Flavored
1616Markdown], [MultiMarkdown], and (subsets of) [Textile],
17−[reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [MediaWiki markup], [TWiki markup],
18−[TikiWiki markup], [Creole 1.0], [Haddock markup], [OPML], [Emacs Org mode],
19−[DocBook], [Muse], [txt2tags], [Vimwiki], [EPUB], [ODT], and [Word docx];
20−and it can write plain text, [Markdown], [CommonMark], [PHP Markdown
21−Extra], [GitHub-Flavored Markdown], [MultiMarkdown],
22−[reStructuredText], [XHTML], [HTML5], [LaTeX] \(including
23−[`beamer`] slide shows\), [ConTeXt], [RTF], [OPML], [DocBook],
24−[OpenDocument], [ODT], [Word docx], [GNU Texinfo], [MediaWiki
25−markup], [DokuWiki markup], [ZimWiki markup], [Haddock markup],
26−[EPUB] \(v2 or v3\), [FictionBook2], [Textile], [groff man],
17+[reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [MediaWiki markup], [TWiki
18+markup], [TikiWiki markup], [Creole 1.0], [Haddock markup], [OPML],
19+[Emacs Org mode], [DocBook], [Muse], [txt2tags], [Vimwiki], [EPUB],
20+[ODT], and [Word docx]; and it can write plain text, [Markdown],
21+[CommonMark], [PHP Markdown Extra], [GitHub-Flavored Markdown],
22+[MultiMarkdown], [reStructuredText], [XHTML], [HTML5], [LaTeX]
23+\(including [`beamer`] slide shows\), [ConTeXt], [RTF], [OPML],
24+[DocBook], [OpenDocument], [ODT], [Word docx], [GNU Texinfo],
25+[MediaWiki markup], [DokuWiki markup], [ZimWiki markup], [Haddock
26+markup], [EPUB] \(v2 or v3\), [FictionBook2], [Textile], [groff man],
2727[groff ms], [Emacs Org mode], [AsciiDoc], [InDesign ICML], [TEI
28−Simple], [Muse] and [Slidy], [Slideous], [DZSlides], [reveal.js]
29−or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce [PDF] output on
30−systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`, `wkhtmltopdf`,
31−`prince`, or `weasyprint` is installed.
28+Simple], [Muse], [PowerPoint] slide shows and [Slidy], [Slideous],
29+[DZSlides], [reveal.js] or [S5] HTML slide shows. It can also produce
30+[PDF] output on systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, `pdfroff`,
31+`wkhtmltopdf`, `prince`, or `weasyprint` is installed.
3232
3333Pandoc's enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for [footnotes],
3434[tables], flexible [ordered lists], [definition lists], [fenced code
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Markdown can be expected to be lossy.
102102[InDesign ICML]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf
103103[TEI Simple]: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple
104104[Muse]: https://amusewiki.org/library/manual
105+[PowerPoint]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
105106[Vimwiki]: https://vimwiki.github.io
106107
107108Using `pandoc`
@@ -303,36 +304,35 @@ General options
303304 (original unextended Markdown), `markdown_phpextra` (PHP Markdown
304305 Extra), `markdown_mmd` (MultiMarkdown), `gfm` (GitHub-Flavored
305306 Markdown), `commonmark` (CommonMark Markdown), `rst`
306− (reStructuredText), `html4` (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), `html`
307− or `html5` (HTML5/XHTML [polyglot markup]), `latex`
308− (LaTeX), `beamer` (LaTeX beamer slide show), `context` (ConTeXt),
309− `man` (groff man), `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup),
310− `dokuwiki` (DokuWiki markup), `zimwiki` (ZimWiki markup),
311− `textile` (Textile), `org` (Emacs Org mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo),
312− `opml` (OPML), `docbook` or `docbook4` (DocBook 4), `docbook5`
313− (DocBook 5), `jats` (JATS XML), `opendocument` (OpenDocument),
314− `odt` (OpenOffice text document), `docx` (Word docx), `haddock`
315− (Haddock markup), `rtf` (rich text format), `epub2` (EPUB v2 book),
316− `epub` or `epub3` (EPUB v3), `fb2` (FictionBook2 e-book),
317− `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `icml` (InDesign ICML), `tei` (TEI
318− Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and JavaScript slide show),
319− `slideous` (Slideous HTML and JavaScript slide show),
320− `dzslides` (DZSlides HTML5 + JavaScript slide show),
321− `revealjs` (reveal.js HTML5 + JavaScript slide show), `s5`
322− (S5 HTML and JavaScript slide show), or the path of a custom
323− lua writer (see [Custom writers], below). (`markdown_github`
324− provides deprecated and less accurate support for
325− Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead, unless
326− you use extensions that do not work with `gfm`.) Note that `odt`,
327− `epub`, and `epub3` output will not be directed to *stdout*;
328− an output filename must be specified using the `-o/--output`
329− option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`, `latex`,
330− `beamer`, `html4`, or `html5`, the output will be rendered as
331− literate Haskell source: see [Literate Haskell support],
332− below. Markdown syntax extensions can be individually
333− enabled or disabled by appending `+EXTENSION` or
334− `-EXTENSION` to the format name, as described above under `-f`.
335− See `--list-output-formats` and `--list-extensions`, below.
307+ (reStructuredText), `html4` (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), `html` or
308+ `html5` (HTML5/XHTML [polyglot markup]), `latex` (LaTeX), `beamer`
309+ (LaTeX beamer slide show), `context` (ConTeXt), `man` (groff man),
310+ `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup), `dokuwiki` (DokuWiki markup),
311+ `zimwiki` (ZimWiki markup), `textile` (Textile), `org` (Emacs Org
312+ mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo), `opml` (OPML), `docbook` or
313+ `docbook4` (DocBook 4), `docbook5` (DocBook 5), `jats` (JATS XML),
314+ `opendocument` (OpenDocument), `odt` (OpenOffice text document),
315+ `docx` (Word docx), `haddock` (Haddock markup), `rtf` (rich text
316+ format), `epub2` (EPUB v2 book), `epub` or `epub3` (EPUB v3),
317+ `fb2` (FictionBook2 e-book), `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `icml`
318+ (InDesign ICML), `tei` (TEI Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and
319+ JavaScript slide show), `slideous` (Slideous HTML and JavaScript
320+ slide show), `dzslides` (DZSlides HTML5 + JavaScript slide show),
321+ `revealjs` (reveal.js HTML5 + JavaScript slide show), `s5` (S5
322+ HTML and JavaScript slide show), `pptx` (PowerPoint slide show) or
323+ the path of a custom lua writer (see [Custom writers],
324+ below). (`markdown_github` provides deprecated and less accurate
325+ support for Github-Flavored Markdown; please use `gfm` instead,
326+ unless you use extensions that do not work with `gfm`.) Note that
327+ `odt`, `epub`, and `epub3` output will not be directed to
328+ *stdout*; an output filename must be specified using the
329+ `-o/--output` option. If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`,
330+ `latex`, `beamer`, `html4`, or `html5`, the output will be
331+ rendered as literate Haskell source: see [Literate Haskell
332+ support], below. Markdown syntax extensions can be individually
333+ enabled or disabled by appending `+EXTENSION` or `-EXTENSION` to
334+ the format name, as described above under `-f`. See
335+ `--list-output-formats` and `--list-extensions`, below.
336336
337337`-o` *FILE*, `--output=`*FILE*
338338
@@ -3891,7 +3891,8 @@ Producing slide shows with pandoc
38913891You can use pandoc to produce an HTML + JavaScript slide presentation
38923892that can be viewed via a web browser. There are five ways to do this,
38933893using [S5], [DZSlides], [Slidy], [Slideous], or [reveal.js].
3894−You can also produce a PDF slide show using LaTeX [`beamer`].
3894+You can also produce a PDF slide show using LaTeX [`beamer`], or
3895+slides shows in Microsoft [PowerPoint] format.
38953896
38963897Here's the Markdown source for a simple slide show, `habits.txt`:
38973898
@@ -3953,6 +3954,10 @@ To produce a PDF slide show using beamer, type
39533954Note that a reveal.js slide show can also be converted to a PDF
39543955by printing it to a file from the browser.
39553956
3957+To produce a Powerpoint slide show, type
3958+
3959+ pandoc habits.txt -o habits.pptx
3960+
39563961Structuring the slide show
39573962--------------------------
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