For the past few months we ProfHackers have been running an occasional series about using the command line. I got us started with a couple posts Taking up the command line is easier if you have a ...

Markdown and want to convert it to an HTML file or PDF file, it is troublesome to prepare conversion software for each format. With the free open source software Pandoc, you can convert document files ...

This fall, I subjected some MPub students to working out a book publishing workflow, using Pandoc, the amazing document processor tool created by Berkeley philosopher John MacFarlane. Pandoc is a ...

There are endless options for converting documents from one format to another, like the ‘Save As’ function in word processors, or various online converters. There’s also an open-source utility for the ...

In my last two postings, I introduced a way to create slide presentations by writing them in a simple text file, with Markdown formatting, and add some of the “infinite canvas” features of Impress.js.

Markdown notes are one of the simplest ways you can take your lists, data, and thoughts digital. It is an efficient system where plaintext formatting alone differentiates headings from list items, ...

The goal of these webpages is to minimize the number of layers between plain text representations that are useful for an author, and html representations that are useful for a reader. The pages are ...

An update for pandoc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System ...

People who use equations and formulae heavily often prefer to create content in LaTeX rather than word processing software. LaTeX is a publishing system based on the TeX markup language that ...

a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native ...