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Life & fun · February 15, 2016

Pandoc

A universal document converter

Pandoc launched on February 15, 2016 with 9 votes, #2,110 of 4,386 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert between the following formats: → LaTeX Beamer ↔︎ Microsoft PowerPoint → Slidy → reveal.js → Slideous → S5 → DZSlides Pandoc understands a number of useful markdown syntax extensions, including document metadata (title, author, date); footnotes; tables; definition lists; superscript and subscript; strikeout; enhanced ordered lists (start number and numbering style are significant); running example lists; delimited code blocks with syntax highlighting; smart quotes, dashes, and ellipses; markdown inside HTML blocks; and inline LaTeX. If strict markdown compatibility is…from pandoc.org

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