Pandoc


Pandoc is a free and open-source document converter, widely used as a writing tool and as a basis for publishing workflows. It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Functionality

Pandoc dubs itself a "markup format" converter. It can take a document in one of the supported formats and convert only its markup to another format. Maintaining the look and feel of the document is not a priority.
Plug-ins for custom formats can also be written in Lua, which has been used to create an exporting tool for the Journal Article Tag Suite.
An included module, pandoc-citeproc, allows the program to use data from reference management software such as BibTeX, EndNote, Mendeley, or Papers. It has the ability to integrate directly with Zotero. The information is automatically transformed into a citation in various styles using an implementation of the Citation Style Language. This allows the program to serve as a simpler alternative to LaTeX for producing academic writing.

Supported file formats

Pandoc's most thoroughly supported file format is an extended version of Markdown, but it can also read many other forms of:
It can create files in the following formats, which are not necessarily the same as the input formats: