I'm pleased to announce the release of Pandoc 0.3, with many
improvements and bug fixes.
Highlights:
- A real markdown parser, not based on regex substitutions.
- [More accurate] and [faster], in many cases, than Markdown.pl.
- Multiple output formats--HTML, Docbook, LaTeX, reStructuredText,
RTF, S5 slide shows--all generated natively, with no XSLT postprocessing.
- Converts *to* markdown from HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText.
- Unicode support.
- Support for footnotes.
- Support for "smart" quotes, dashes, and ellipses.
- Support for document metadata (title, author, date).
- Support for inline LaTeX math and ASCIIMathML.
- Support for inline LaTeX commands.
- Compatibility mode to turn off syntax entensions and emulate
Markdown.pl.
- Convenient wrapper scripts:
+ html2markdown makes it easy to produce a markdown version
of any web page.
+ markdown2pdf converts markdown to PDF in one step.
+ hsmarkdown is a drop-in replacement for Markdown.pl.
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix.
Binary packages are available for Windows and OS X.
Website:
http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
Downloads:
http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/list
A quick demonstration:
http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/examples.html
Changelog:
http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/changelog.html
[More accurate]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl
[faster]: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/Benchmarks
John MacFarlane
(with lots of help from Recai Oktas)
john (with lots of help from recai) said:> - Multiple output formats--HTML, Docbook, LaTeX, reStructuredText, > RTF, S5 slide shows--all generated natively, with no XSLTpostprocessing.> > - Converts *to* markdown from HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText. > > - Convenient wrapper scripts: > + html2markdown makes it easy to produce a markdown versionwow. this is awesome, truly awesome. i'm looking forward to seeing it. i am _especially_ excited by "round-tripping" -- the ability to take any markdown text and generate the .html for it, and then back-translate that .html into a markdown file that's exactly the same as the one you started with -- but maybe that's just me... ;+) and start dropping this code into servers or browsers, so us human beings can upload plain-text all the time, and not even have to think about .html files ever again... -bowerbird -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/attachments/20070109/b1339...