[ANN] Pandoc 0.3

John MacFarlane
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:22 -0000

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)