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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

🆕 pandoc 3.10 🚀 • Added a `--typst-input` option, which allows passing arbitrary `sys.inputs` parameters to the typst evaluator. • ODT now uses predefined styles instead of emitting automatic styles for every paragraph. The result is easier to style. Custom reference.odt documents should be […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Docker images in the pandoc/latex and pandoc/extra repositories have often had missing packages. The reason was the release of TeXLive 2026 and, what appears to be, a moody archive server for TeXLive 2025. The “latest” images, which contain the newest pandoc 3.9.0.2, come with TeXLive 2026 and […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

The default HTML-output generated by pandoc is polyglot HTML, i.e., it's both valid HTML and XML. The `tidy` utility is tool that can generate pure HTML; it can also shed a few bytes by omitting optional tags. E.g. pandoc --to=html -s … | tidy -q -ashtml -omit #pandoc #html #html5 #xml #tidy

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

New in pandoc 3.9: Many CSL styles will format citations differently when the same source has been cited earlier. In documents with chapters, it is usually desirable to reset this position information at the beginning of every chapter. To do this, add the class `reset-citation-positions` to the […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

New off-label use: packing zip archives with pandoc: pandoc --extract-media=archive.zip <<EOF ! ! EOF #pandoc #offlabel

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

New in pandoc 3.9: Passing a filepath with a `.zip` extension to the `--extract-media` command line parameter now collects all media files in that zip. E.g. pandoc --extract-media=images.zip … #pandoc #zip #media_files

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

The Lua system now includes `pandoc.utils.documentation` for online help. Pass it a pandoc function or module, and it will return the docs for that object. #pandoc #onlineHelp #Lua

A terminal session featuring the pandoc Lua interpreter. The screen shows the result after running `pandoc.utils.documentation(pandoc.read)`. The output lists all function parameters of "pandoc.read", with a short descriptions and parameter data types; it also includes docs for the function's return value.

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@pandoc/1160117070016… And it's completely ad-free, of course. Many thanks to everybody sponsoring us!

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at pandoc.org/app It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*. Conversions to pdf are done via Typst […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

🆕 pandoc 3.9 🎉🚀 • Official support for wasm (WebAssembly), allowing to run pandoc in the browser, • *alerts* extension in the pandoc Markdown flavor, • support for defaults files using JSON instead of YAML, • extension of `${.}` vars in the `defaults` field, making it easier to base defaults […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

The pandoc wasm demo, which do document conversions in the browser, now supports Lua filters! pandoc.org/wasm-demo #pandoc #wasm #Lua #LuaFilter

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rustaceans/1159357… No matter your stance on projects created with LLM-tools, please remember that these new converters would not have been possible without the manual work that went into pandoc. The project here is a comparatively pleasant and positive […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Or as a single command, without a helper script: pandoc lua -l m=pandoc.mediabag \ -e 'm.insert(OUTFILE, m.fetch(URI))' \ -e 'm.write(".")' #pandoc #offLabel

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Off-label-use: pandoc as a network downloader Lua helper script (pget.lua): #!/usr/bin/env pandoc-lua local mb = require 'pandoc.mediabag' local path = require 'pandoc.path' local uri = arg[1] or error"No URI given" local out = arg[2] or path.filename(uri) local mt, content = mb.fetch(uri) mb […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Off-label-use of pandoc: convert numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals. echo 'MMXXVI.' | pandoc -t commonmark ⇒ 2026. #pandoc #offLabel #romanNumerals

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Off-label uses of pandoc: conversion between text encodings. Convert text encodings, UTF-8 to UTF-16: echo 'X' | pandoc lua -e 'io.write(pandoc.text.toencoding(io.read"a", "utf-16"))' Other direction: echo 'X' | pandoc lua -e 'io.write(pandoc.text.fromencoding(io.read"a", "utf-16"))' The […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer: pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html #pandoc #wasm

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

The freshly baked Docker images for pandoc 3.8.3 are on Docker Hub and in GitHub Container Registry. Changes: The build-process for those images has been simplified thanks to the new arm64 binaries available for pandoc-crossref. Also, the #Typst images now ship with the latest version, Typst 0 […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉 This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants). It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details. Thanks to all who contributed! […]

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2024

Getting support for #pandoc • The "Discussions" forum on GitHub has become the central place for community support: github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions • A wealth of knowledge can be found in the archive of the pandoc-discuss mailing list inbox.vuxu.org/pandoc-discuss • Likewise […]

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