Summary
Pandoc is a free software that can convert files from one markup format into another, supporting a variety of formats including lightweight markdown, HTML, Ebooks, documentation formats, Roff, TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, XML, outlining, bibliography, word processor, interactive notebook, page layout, Wiki markup, Slide show, data formats, custom formats, and more.
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It also includes a powerful system for automatic citations and bibliographies, and is customizable with a template system and writing filters.
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Pandoc was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley
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, and is widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) and as a basis for publishing workflows.
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It is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.
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