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1+Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting from one markup format
2+to another. It can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText,
3+HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML,
4+LaTeX, DocBook, RTF, and S5 HTML slide shows.
6+Pandoc extends standard markdown syntax with footnotes, embedded LaTeX,
7+and other features. A compatibility mode is provided for those who
8+need a drop-in replacement for Markdown.pl. Included wrapper scripts
9+make it easy to convert markdown documents to PDFs and to convert web
10+pages to markdown documents.
12+In contrast to existing tools for converting markdown to HTML, which
13+use regex substitutions, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a
14+set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native
15+representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert
16+this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input
17+or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.
19+WWW: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/