Introduction

pandoc is a commandline tool for converting from one markup format to another.

It can read

• Markdown
• CommonMark
• Textile
• reStructuredText
• HTML
• LaTeX
• MediaWiki
• TWiki
• Haddock
• OPML
• Emacs Org-mode
• DocBook
• txt2tags
• EPUB
• Word docx;

and it can write

• plain text
• Markdown
• reStructuredText
• XHTML
• HTML 5
• LaTeX
• ConTeXt
• RTF
• OPML
• DocBook
• Open-Document
• ODT
• Word docx
• GNU Texinfo
• MediaWiki markup
• DokuWiki markup
• Haddock markup
• EPUB
• FictionBook2
• Textile
• groff man pages
• Emacs Org-Mode
• AsciiDoc
• InDesign ICML
• and Slidy
• Slideous
• DZSlides
• reveal.js
• S5 HTML slide shows.

Command line syntax:

pandoc [OPTIONS] [FILES]

Most common options:

 Options:
   -f FORMAT, -r FORMAT  --from=FORMAT, --read=FORMAT
   -t FORMAT, -w FORMAT  --to=FORMAT, --write=FORMAT
   -o FILENAME           --output=FILENAME
   -s                    --standalone
   -c URL                --css=URL

Examples

Simple call to convert the text file input.txt into html:

 pandoc -o output.html input.txt

By default, pandoc produces a document fragment, not a standalone document with a proper header and footer. To produce a standalone document, use the -s or --standalone flag:

 pandoc -s -o output.html input.txt