Expertise Metid Match 2013 Pandoc

1. Pandoc
a universal document
converter
Alessandro Borsoi
16.01.2014, EDUCAFE, METID – Politecnico di Milano

2. 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

3. 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).

4. who
John MacFarlane
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
314 Moses Hall #2390
Berkeley, CA 94720-2390
Telephone: (510) 394-3321
Fax: (510) 642-4164
E-mail: jgm@berkeley.edu
Office: 231 Moses Hall
Office Hours: Tu 9-11

5. formats
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HTML formats: XHTML, HTML5, and HTML slide shows
using Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5 or DZSlides.
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Word processor formats: Microsoft Word docx,
OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODT, OpenDocumentXML
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Ebooks: EPUB version 2 or 3, FictionBook2
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Documentation formats: DocBook, GNU TexInfo, Groff
man pages, Haddock markup
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Outline formats: OPML
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TeX formats: LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides
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PDF via LaTeX
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Lightweight markup formats: Mardown, reStructuredText,
AsciiDoc, MediaWiki markup, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile
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Custom formats: custon writers can be written in lua

6. how
Command-line!!!!!

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

8. examples

9. alternatives
Multimarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
Maruku: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/
Muse: http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html

10. 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

11. alternatives
Maruku
Muse
Output formats:
- HTML
- LaTeX
- PDF
Output formats:
- Blosxom
- ConTeXt
- DocBook
- Groff
- HTML
- Info
- LaTeX
- PDF
- RSS 2.0
- Texinfo
- XHTML
- XML

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

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