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: "Pandoc"
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category: "Office, notes and writing"
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tagline: "Converts documents between formats: Markdown, Word, HTML, PDF, EPUB and dozens more."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "pandoc-cli"
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command: "pandoc"
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website: "https://pandoc.org/"
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code: "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc"
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---
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## What it is
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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.
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```
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pandoc notes.md -o notes.docx
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```
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## Why it's here
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- **Write once, publish anywhere.** Draft in Markdown and hand people a Word file, a web page or a PDF.
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- **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.
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## On CoreDesktop
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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.
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