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Pandoc

Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) and as a basis for publishing workflows. It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Supported file formats, Functionality & Overview

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License
GNU GPLv2-or-later
Operating system
Unix-like, Windows
Original author
John MacFarlane
Platform
Cross-platform
Release
10 August 2006 (20 years ago) (2006-08-10)
Repository
github.com/jgm/pandoc

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Overview

Functionality

Supported file formats

Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Pandoc

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples119
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
Components1

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Pandoc

Top relations

related to Output formats · 47
Pandoc → Article Tag Suite, AsciiDocBibliography, BibLaTeX, BibTeX, CommonMark, ConTeXt, CSL JSON, CSL YAMLConTeXtDocBook, Djot, DokuWiki, DZSlides, FB2, GFM, GitHub Flavored Markdown, HaddockHTML, HTML4, HTML5, JATS, JSONJupyter NotebookLaTeXman, LaTeX Beamer
related to Input formats · 41
Pandoc → Article Tag Suite, AsciiDocBibliography, BibLaTeX, BibTeX, BITS, Book Interchange Tag Set, CommonMark, CSL JSON, CSL YAML, Djot, EndNote XMLCreoleCSV, FB2, GFM, GitHub Flavored Markdown, HaddockHTMLJira, JATS, JSONJupyter NotebookLaTeXman, Markdown, Markdown Extra, MediaWiki
related to CiteProc · 16
Pandoc → An, APA, BibLaTeX, BibTeX, Chicago, Citation Style Language, CiteProc, CSL JSON, CSL YAML, LaTeX, Markdown, MLA, Or, RIS, The, This
related to Functionality · 5
Pandoc → It, Journal Article Tag Suite, Lua, Maintaining, Plug-ins
License · 1
Pandoc → GNU GPLv2-or-later
Operating system · 1
Pandoc → Unix-like, Windows
Original author · 1
Pandoc → John MacFarlane
Platform · 1
Pandoc → Cross-platform
Release · 1
Pandoc → 10 August 2006 (20 years ago) (2006-08-10)
Repository · 1
Pandoc → github.com/jgm/pandoc

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

formats format document used markdown input also john macfarlane markup data converter writing tool citeproc supported output bibtex biblatex json

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PandocLicenseGNU GPLv2-or-later1.00infobox
PandocOperating systemUnix-like, Windows1.00infobox
PandocOriginal authorJohn MacFarlane1.00infobox
PandocPlatformCross-platform1.00infobox
PandocRelease10 August 2006 (20 years ago) (2006-08-10)1.00infobox
PandocRepositorygithub.com/jgm/pandoc1.00infobox
PandocStable release3.10.2 / 12 August 2026 (12 days ago) (12 August 2026)1.00infobox
PandocWebsitepandoc.org1.00infobox
PandocWritten inHaskell1.00infobox
Pandocis afree-software document converter0.90text
Pandocrelated to CiteProcAn0.60section
Pandocrelated to CiteProcCiteProc0.60section

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