Alessandro Borsoi16.01.2014, EDUCAFE, METID – Politecnico di Milano

a universal document converter

Pandoc

what it is (1)

PANDOC is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

Pandoc is free software, released under the GPL. © 2006-2013

what it is (2)

PANDOC is a 

Haskell: is a computer programming language.

library: in computer science, a library is a collection of implementations of behavior, written in terms of a language, that has a well-defined interface by which the behavior is invoked. In addition, the behavior is provided for reuse by multiple independent programs.

for converting from one markup format to another: A (document) markup language is a modern system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text. 

and a command-line tool that uses this library: is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines).

who

John MacFarlaneProfessor and Chair, Department of PhilosophyUniversity of California, Berkeley314 Moses Hall #2390Berkeley, CA 94720-2390

Telephone: (510) 394-3321Fax: (510) 642-4164E-mail: jgm@berkeley.edu

Office: 231 Moses HallOffice Hours: Tu 9-11

formats

- HTML formats: XHTML, HTML5, and HTML slide shows using Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5 or DZSlides.

- Word processor formats: Microsoft Word docx, OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODT, OpenDocumentXML

- Ebooks: EPUB version 2 or 3, FictionBook2

- Documentation formats: DocBook, GNU TexInfo, Groff man pages, Haddock markup

- Outline formats: OPML

- TeX formats: LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides

- PDF via LaTeX

- Lightweight markup formats: Mardown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, MediaWiki markup, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile

- Custom formats: custon writers can be written in lua

how

Command-line!!!!!

how

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try/

examples

alternatives

Multimarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

Maruku: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/

Muse: http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html

alternatives

Multimarkdown (MMD)

Output formats:- HTML/XHTML- LaTeX (which can be processed into a PDF)- OpenDocument Text document- OPML- RTF- Microsoft Word- Multiple other word-processor formats

alternatives

Maruku

Output formats:- HTML- LaTeX- PDF

Muse

Output formats:- Blosxom- ConTeXt- DocBook- Groff- HTML- Info- LaTeX- PDF- RSS 2.0- Texinfo- XHTML- XML

Pandoc vs MMD

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-vs-Multimarkdown

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