davidandClaude Opus 5.5
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CoreDesktop dropped the texlive group (22 packages, about 3 GB) in e958e20, so remove its page, and tell Pandoc users which packages give it a LaTeX engine for PDFs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title, category, tagline, source, package, command, website, code
| title | category | tagline | source | package | command | website | code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pandoc | Office, notes and writing | Converts documents between formats: Markdown, Word, HTML, PDF, EPUB and dozens more. | pacman | pandoc-cli | pandoc | https://pandoc.org/ | 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 too. For
pandoc notes.md -o notes.pdf, install a LaTeX engine first:sudo pacman -S texlive-latexextra texlive-fontsrecommended. CoreDesktop leaves TeX Live out, as it takes a few gigabytes.
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.