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Questions about Pandoc, a free and open-source software document converter.

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. Pandoc can convert between numerous markup and word processing formats, including, but not limited to, various flavors of Markdown, HTML, LaTeX and Word docx.

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correctly sizing PNG images in markdown with pandoc for html/pdf/docx

I am trying to use markdown with pandoc to convert a single document into html, pdf, and docx. It's an extremely simple document containing only math-less text and a few images. The images are in PNG format. I include an image using this in…
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Getting chapters to start on a new page in a pandoc-generated PDF

%Title %Author #Header 1 Lots of words. #Header 2 More words. ##Level 2 header The above text can be turned into an EPUB file for e-readers with pandoc -o output.epub input.mkd, and it can be converted to PDF with pandoc -o output.pdf…
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Markdown to LaTeX conversion with a custom preamble using Pandoc

I know that I can use the -H or --include-in-header commands to include a custom preamble in the generated output. The problem is now that Pandoc includes my preamble but puts another preamble in front of…
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Rendering PDF from Markdown file with literal emoji characters using Pandoc

I'd like to convert markdown text like: This is a smile To a PDF with the emoji on it. To be clear, I want to be able to insert the emoji character itself in the source text, not something like :smile:. How can I do this with Pandoc?
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Generate table of contents with links for GitHub markdown with pandoc

How to generate table of contents with links for GitHub markdown with pandoc? I tried pandoc -f markdown_github --toc -s -S README.md -o new.md It does create a table of contents but it has no link to sections. I'm trying to generate a table of…
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Word count for markdown?

Is there a way to get a word count of natural language words in Markdown (or better, Pandoc Markdown), via the command line? It's possible to just use wc to get a very rough estimate, but wc is naive, and counts anything surrounded by white space…
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Why would RTF files created with Pandoc be opened as plain text?

I'm experimenting with Pandoc, in particular the markdown to RTF function. When I run the converter, the resulting RTF is opened in both Word and OpenOffice as plain text (where the text looks like RTF, but isn't treated as RTF). Converting to HTML…
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Make pandoc ignore css style class

I'm trying to convert an HTML file to Markdown using Pandoc, but I'm having a hard time finding the correct options. I would like convert the entire HTML file to the simplest Markdown possible. That is, no
tags and no CSS styling in curly…
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Compile PDF book from multiple Markdown files

I have a folder structure like this, with recipe .md files in directories according to theme: Recipes |- Mains | |- recipe1.md | |- recipe2.md |- Desserts |- recipe3.md |- recipe4.md How can I compile all these…
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Using Pandoc to convert from markdown to markdown with references / What does "reference with no printed form" mean?

I want to write a markdown file with references @ref (and a BibTeX database). When sending the file around, it should be converted to a stand alone markdown file containing rendered references. The rendered reference key should not be numeric, but…
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How to use Pdflatex with Pandoc?

I'm using Pandoc to convert my markdown files to different formats including html and docx. With PDF though, I get the message pdflatex not found even though it was installed and I can even call it directly from Cygwin. Why is Pandoc not detecting…
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How do I set pandoc as a 'compiler' for markdown files in SciTE?

I've begun writing stuff in markdown lately, and edit my files in SciTE. I work in Windows, so this means I'm simultaneously running a Windows command prompt to generate output files at various stages of my writing process. I mostly output my files…
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Creating Text Style with Colors using Pandoc to Docx Converter

I am creating a simple Word document (*.docx) using Pandoc. My input text file is fairly straight forward. I would like to create text with Red/Yellow/Green highlight. I am aware of creating a custom reference document and using that in Pandoc. In…
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How do I use Pandoc's extensions correctly?

This is in my .md document: ![Step 1](Slide1.png){ width=100px } ![Step 2](Slide2.png){ width=100px } ![Step 3](Slide3.png){ width=100px } ![Step 4](Slide4.png){ width=100px } ![Step 5](Slide5.png){ width=100px } ![Step 6](Slide6.png){…
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Pandoc options to convert LaTeX flavored Markdown to HTML

The aim is to convert a Markdown file (file.md) to a html file (file.html). The Markdown file contains formulas specified in LaTeX specified between two dollar ($) signs. Example: The resulting formula is $p\left(n,k,i\right)=\dfrac{{n-i-1 \choose…
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