INSTALLATION (ARCH LINUX, SUPPORTING LATEX AND PDF IMPORT/EXPORT):

$ pacman -S pandoc texlive-core texlive-bin texlive-science zathura zathura-pdf-poppler

CAN CONVERT FROM AND TO:

• markdown
• html
• docx
• odt (open/libre office)
• epub
• html slideshows (Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5, or DZSlides.)
• etc: http://pandoc.org/index.html

GENERAL SYNTAX:

Converting from markdown to html

$ pandoc test1.md -f markdown -t html -s -o test1.html The filename test1.md tells pandoc which file to convert. The -s option says to create a “standalone” file, with a header and footer, not just a fragment. And the -o test1.html says to put the output in the file test1.html. Note that we could have omitted -f markdown and -t html, since the default is to convert from markdown to HTML, but it doesn’t hurt to include them.

Converting from latex to a nicelly formatted pdf

$ pandoc spot_workflow.project.md -f markdown -t latex -o spot_workflow.project.pdf -V geometry:“top=3cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm” ("-V" specifies the document margins) IMPORTANT: Libreoffice can be used headless to convert documents to and from all formats it supports. E.g., to convert “00001.odt” from odt to pdf: $ libreoffice –headless –convert-to pdf –outdir ‘/tmp’ 00001.odt (With the option “–headless”, it works through the CLI. The output file will be at “/tmp/00001.pdf"i) To convert, e.g., to MS Excel 95 you must use: … –convert-to xls:“MS Excel 95”