John MacFarlane | 10 Mar 2012 16:45
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ANN: pandoc 1.9.1.2

It has been a while since I've announced a pandoc release on this
list, so here's an update. The latest version of pandoc supports
conversion of markdown to a host of other formats, including

* HTML formats:  XHTML, HTML5, and HTML slide shows using Slidy,
  S5, or DZSlides
* Word processor formats:  Microsoft Word docx, OpenOffice odt
* Ebooks:  EPUB
* Documentation formats: DocBook, GNU TexInfo, Groff man pages
* TeX formats: LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides
* PDF:  via LaTeX
* Lightweight markup formats: Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc,
  MediaWiki, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile

It also supports limited conversion *from* Textile, reStructuredText,
LaTeX, and HTML to markdown or any of the above formats.

Pandoc supports strict markdown syntax, plus a number of extensions,
including several kinds of tables, definition lists, fancy ordered
lists, automatically numbered example lists, delimited code blocks
with built-in syntax highlighting, title blocks, smart punctuation,
strikeout, and super/subscripts.

LaTeX math (and even macros) can be used in markdown documents.  Eight
different methods of rendering math in HTML are provided, including
MathJax and translation to MathML. LaTeX math is rendered in docx using
native Word equation objects.

Pandoc includes a powerful system for automatic citations and
bibliographies, using Andrea Rossato's Haskell implementation of
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