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1515Synopsis: Conversion between markup formats
1616Description: Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup
1717 format to another, and a command-line tool that uses
18− this library. It can read markdown and (subsets of) HTML,
19− reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, MediaWiki markup, TWiki
20− markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, txt2tags,
21− Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and it can write
22− Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX,
23− ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, OpenDocument, ODT,
18+ this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and
19+ (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook,
20+ MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML,
21+ Emacs Org-Mode, txt2tags, Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and
22+ it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5,
23+ LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, OpenDocument, ODT,
2424 Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, Textile, groff man
2525 pages, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup,
2626 EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, and several
2727 kinds of HTML/javascript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous,
2828 DZSlides, reveal.js).
2929 .
30− Pandoc extends standard markdown syntax with footnotes,
31− embedded LaTeX, definition lists, tables, and other
32− features. A compatibility mode is provided for those
33− who need a drop-in replacement for Markdown.pl.
34− .
35− In contrast to existing tools for converting markdown
36− to HTML, which use regex substitutions, pandoc has
37− a modular design: it consists of a set of readers,
38− which parse text in a given format and produce a native
39− representation of the document, and a set of writers,
30+ In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown
31+ to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of
32+ readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a
33+ native representation of the document, and a set of writers,
4034 which convert this native representation into a target
4135 format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires
4236 only adding a reader or writer.