Introducing Markdown and Pandoc: Using Markup Language and Document Converter

by Thomas Mailund

Discover how to write manuscripts in Markdown and translate them with Pandoc into different output formats. You'll use Markdown to annotate text formatting information with a strong focus on semantic information: you can annotate your text with information about where chapters and sections start, but not how chapter and heading captions should be formatted. As a result, you'll decouple the structure of a text from how it is visualized and make it easier for you to produce different kinds of output. The same text can easily be formatted as HTML, PDF, or Word documents, with various visual styles, by tools that understand the markup annotations.
Finally, you'll learn to use Pandoc, a tool for translating between different markup languages, such as LaTeX, HTML, and Markdown. This book will not describe all the functionality that Pandoc provides, but will teach you how to translate Markdown documents, how to customize your documents using templates, and how to extend Pandoc's functionality using filters. If that is something you are interested in, Introducing Markdown and Pandoc will get you started.
With this set of skills you'll be able to write more efficiently without worrying about needless formatting and other distractions.
What You Will Learn
Why and how to use Markdown and Pandoc
Write Markdown
Use extensions available in Pandoc and Markdown
Write math and code blocks
Use templates and produce documents

Who This Book Is For
Programmers and problem solvers looking for technical documentation solutions.

139 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2019

Reviews

[Jin Shusong · Rating 4 out of 5]

a plain and practical introduction to markdown and pandoc

[Ietrio · Rating 2 out of 5]

The text is quite clean and so completely useless: an unimaginative rehash of the Markdown and Pandoc documentation.