software catalog

content/software/pandoc.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: "Pandoc"
+category: "Office, notes and writing"
+tagline: "Converts documents between formats: Markdown, Word, HTML, PDF, EPUB and dozens more."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "pandoc-cli"
+command: "pandoc"
+website: "https://pandoc.org/"
+code: "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+Pandoc is a command-line tool that converts documents from one markup format to another. It reads and writes Markdown, HTML, Word (.docx), OpenDocument, LaTeX, EPUB, reStructuredText and many more. With a LaTeX engine installed it also produces PDFs.
+
+```
+pandoc notes.md -o notes.docx
+```
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Write once, publish anywhere.** Draft in Markdown and hand people a Word file, a web page or a PDF.
+- **PDFs out of the box.** TeX Live is installed too, so `pandoc notes.md -o notes.pdf` works.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+CoreDesktop installs Pandoc from pacman; on Arch the `pandoc` command comes from the `pandoc-cli` package. Run `pandoc` in a terminal. `update` keeps it current with the rest of the pacman packages.