pandoc

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:

https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html

#pandoc #wasm

🆕 pandoc 3.10 🚀

• Added a `--typst-input` option, which allows passing arbitrary `sys.inputs` parameters to the typst evaluator.
• ODT now uses predefined styles instead of emitting automatic styles for every paragraph. The result is easier to style. Custom reference.odt documents should be updated.

And much more.

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.10

The pandoc wasm demo, which allows to run document conversions in the browser, now supports Lua filters!
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/

#pandoc #wasm #Lua #LuaFilter

There is now an up-to-date pandoc-wasm package available on npm.

The credit for this goes to @gws@fosstodon.org and @johanneswilm@mastodon.world thanks a lot!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pandoc-wasm

#pandoc #wasm #npm #javascript

The Lua system now includes `pandoc.utils.documentation` for online help. Pass it a pandoc function or module, and it will return the docs for that object.

#pandoc #onlineHelp #Lua

Docker images in the pandoc/latex and pandoc/extra repositories have often had missing packages. The reason was the release of TeXLive 2026 and, what appears to be, a moody archive server for TeXLive 2025.
The “latest” images, which contain the newest pandoc 3.9.0.2, come with TeXLive 2026 and should work fine.

Apologies to everybody inconvenienced by this.

#pandoc #TeXLaTeX #docker

New off-label use: packing zip archives with pandoc:

pandoc --extract-media=archive.zip <<EOF
![](file1.txt)
![](document.pdf)
EOF

#pandoc #offlabel

@metaphil@chaos.social 😁 Sounds like you're on Arch Linux, as that's a general problem with Haskell apps on Arch. If you want to keep pandoc installed locally, then checkout the pandoc-bin package on AUR. It's not maintained by any of the pandoc core devs, but is generally accepted as the best way to install pandoc on Arch.

New in pandoc 3.9:
Many CSL styles will format citations differently when the same source has been cited earlier. In documents with chapters, it is usually desirable to reset this position information at the beginning of every chapter. To do this, add the class `reset-citation-positions` to the heading for each chapter:

# The Beginning {.reset-citation-positions}

Note that this class only has an effect when placed on top-level headings; it is ignored in nested blocks.

#pandoc #csl #citation

Pandoc is written in #Haskell (https://haskell.org), an advanced, purely functional programming language. It was chosen for its great parser support, which was ahead of its time when pandoc was born in 2006. The language is also uniquely suited for a long-lived project, as the strong typing helps tremendously to keep things maintainable.
#pandoc

The default HTML-output generated by pandoc is polyglot HTML, i.e., it's both valid HTML and XML.
The `tidy` utility is a tool that can generate pure HTML; it can also shed a few bytes by omitting optional tags. E.g.

pandoc --to=html -s … | tidy -q -ashtml -omit

#pandoc #html #html5 #xml #tidy

#pandoc #Markdown tip: "backslash-escape" spaces to make them non-breaking. E.g.:
J.\ R.\ R.\ Tolkien
or
128\ cm
This prevents the surrounding words from ending up on different lines.

@rhaen@digitalcourage.social
Nice. You might also like our official images, e.g.
https://hub.docker.com/r/pandoc/latex
https://hub.docker.com/r/pandoc/extra

The latter ships with Eisvogel.