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62 mentions on Hacker News by 55 people: 6 stories, 56 comments · first 2012-02-25 · latest 2026-06-15

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  1. …so those features aren't hit when converting via Pandoc. sys.inputs makes that very easy https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/11588 The books in question: https://thelabofthought.co/shop
    comment by raybb · 2026-06-15 · in Typst 0.15.0
  2. …by data scientists the world over. The python wrapper for pandoc has 16 million downloads[2]. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc [2]: https://pypi.org/project/pandoc/
    comment by apnorton · 2026-05-24 · in Markdown Is Not LaTeX
  3. …Typst, all done client-side [2]. Furthermore, you get .docx and other output formats as well [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.9 [2]: https://pandoc.org/app/
    comment by LuttelBurchtje · 2026-05-08 · in The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
  4. There's an Obsidian extension for Pandoc so you can convert your Obsidian notes to any other format. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11135 There are a number of basic errors in this report, but since it's LLM-written I suppose I shall…
    comment by kepano · 2026-04-09 · in Potential Markdown Data Loss When You Will Move Away from Obsidian
  5. From the pandoc release announcement: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/3.9 : > Starting with this release, pandoc can be compiled to WASM, making it possible to use pandoc in the browser. A full-featured GUI interface is provided at…
    comment by westurner · 2026-02-12 · in Pandoc in the Browser with WASM
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    Release Pandoc 3.9
    story by Tomte · 2026-02-04 · 1 comment
  7. …so I use that to create a docx (which Draft2Digital converts to epub). I even opened a few issues ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%2... ) for pandoc support and they were almost all resolved pretty quickly. [0]:…
    comment by raybb · 2025-10-24 · in Typst 0.14
  8. …But wouldn't recommend going via Pandoc, for example for this reason: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions/10438 Some things like #show rules can be a bit confusing. And obviously LLMs can't really help you.
    comment by mbanerjeepalmer · 2025-09-27 · in Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
  9. …open. Overall, a very positive experience. Book: https://thelabofthought.co/shop/p/nbmi3 Bugs: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3A...
    comment by raybb · 2025-09-27 · in Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
  10. …linked pandoc executable that depends only on libc6 (>= 2.13), libgmp10, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4). [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
    comment by m000 · 2025-03-30 · in Why is this site built with C
  11. …for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061
    comment by drojas · 2024-02-02 · in Pandoc
  12. ▲ 1
    What Happened to Pandoc-Discuss?
    story by Schiphol · 2024-01-19 · 0 comments
  13. …https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv https://academ.us/article/2111.15588/ (powered by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc I believe)
    comment by isaacfung · 2023-12-22 · in ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
  14. …guy saying in July of 2014 he expected pandoc's asciidoc frontend to be done in a "few months": https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456#issuecomment-50805...
    comment by nonameiguess · 2023-10-22 · in Using AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor for Blogging
  15. For instance, pandoc is written in Haskell: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by ykonstant · 2023-08-13 · in The Meaning of Monad in MonadTrans
  16. You could do it with Pandoc ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc ), it supports both Latex and Typst as input and output formats, and can use either as a PDF engine.
    comment by velcrovan · 2023-07-31 · in LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)
  17. If you need a more featureful alternative to textutils, look for pandoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by atarv · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  18. …me I was smart enough to understand and modify real world software I did not build myself. [0] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by osener · 2023-06-18 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
  19. …is great for writing, but don't try to auto-generate it; e.g. pandoc still can't correctly do so: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2337 Note that Asciidoctor (the Ruby implementation) has a reasonable solution now, but it's not…
    comment by aidenn0 · 2023-02-06 · in I wish Asciidoc was more popular
  20. …the package pandoc-cli installs the pandoc binary [1], so it shouldn't beak that many scripts. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/535bd0393fe7b2f287903b942...
    comment by y04nn · 2023-01-19 · in Pandoc 3.0
  21. changelog: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/changelog.md
    comment by spindle · 2023-01-18 · in Pandoc 3.0 Released
  22. ▲ 3
    Pandoc 3.0 Released
    story by crecker · 2023-01-18 · 1 comment
  23. I bet pandoc [1] is even more successful, in the sense of pretty wide use. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by nine_k · 2022-12-11 · in Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
  24. …approach is to use Pandoc, but no one has yet merged a plain TeX writer into the Pandoc repo ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4341 — I was briefly interested a couple of years ago, and may look into it again: it doesn't seem like a…
    comment by svat · 2022-10-10 · in LaTeX Makes Me Angry
  25. …a blog generator https://github.com/input-output-hk - the Cardano blockchain and Daedalus wallet https://github.com/jgm/pandoc - Universal markup converter (already mentioned above) https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat - secure…
    comment by simonmic · 2022-06-09 · in Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
  26. …converters like pandoc I don't think Pandoc knows anything about the PDF format. It can't read it https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re... or write it https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Wr... .…
    comment by chrisseaton · 2022-05-04 · in Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
  27. …purposes) since the code base is in Haskell [1]. I would prefer something more Python-like. [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re...
    comment by auraham · 2021-12-04 · in Ask HN: Learning how to convert Markdown to HTML
  28. There are Pandoc binary releases for Arm64. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases But it looks like this was before that (didn't have the 2020 when I read it).
    comment by IshKebab · 2021-07-29 · in M4 as a templating language (2020)
  29. ▲ 2
    The Universal Markup Converter
    story by axiomdata316 · 2021-06-14 · 1 comment
  30. …that supports a large number of input/output document formats in varying degrees of completeness: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by tpmx · 2021-05-13 · in Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs
  31. …| grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")') curl -sLo "pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${VERSION}/pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" apt-get -y install "./pandoc-${VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" The Github API
    comment by stonesweep · 2021-04-22 · in Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc
  32. …instead of apt to download Pandoc and Calibre? You should be able to replace all this: !wget https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/2.11.3.2/pandoc-2.11.3.2-1-amd64.deb !sudo dpkg -i pandoc-2.11.3.2-1-amd64.deb !apt install…
    comment by progval · 2021-04-22 · in Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc
  33. …that is built with pandoc to be described, made available, and released under the same license. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/COPYRIGHT
    comment by RandomWorker · 2021-01-19 · in NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
  34. …another (from one type to another type), like pandoc [1], which indeed is written in Haskell. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by Jenz · 2021-01-09 · in Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)
  35. See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/User-contributed-template... for more
    comment by asicsp · 2020-11-27 · in Pandoc for TeXnicians [pdf]
  36. …markdown as a commented CSV format. The only nuisance is that a table can't yet have attributes — https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6317 — the workaround being a pre-filter to copy them from a surrounding div. I've also toyed with using…
    comment by kps · 2020-10-25 · in Pandoc – A universal document converter
  37. ▲ 4
    Pandoc 2.11
    story by bewuethr · 2020-10-11 · 0 comments
  38. …come up with something that's just right for your needs, without all the bells and whistles. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by hazbo · 2019-11-23 · in Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?
  39. …haskell utilities, and see if you feel Haskell is a good fit? I'm honestly not certain myself. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Re...
    comment by e12e · 2019-10-06 · in Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
  40. …widescreen template included with Pandoc and attempts to use other templates caused me to encounter https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5402 . The resulting .pptx files won't open in Keynote, either, but luckily they did open in Google…
    comment by jaymcgavren · 2019-05-09 · in Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
  41. …very supportive community. See http://pandoc.org/CONTRIBUTING.html and for good first issues: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+... Finally, a great feature, that hasn't been mentioned here, is pandoc filters.…
    comment by mb2100 · 2018-08-28 · in Pandoc
  42. although the version in the default repo is usually quite old. You can grab a binary from https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest
    comment by mb2100 · 2018-08-28 · in Pandoc
  43. There is useful discussion on the issue regarding Asciidoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1456
    comment by adzm · 2018-08-27 · in Pandoc
  44. ▲ 5
    Pandoc 2.0 released
    story by foob · 2017-10-30 · 0 comments
  45. …formats. How does this relate to a discussion on the relevance of parser generators / libraries? https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc
    comment by bd82 · 2017-10-17 · in Ohm: Parsing Made Easy
  46. …Everything else in the template file stays there. You can view the Pandoc html5 default here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/data/templates/def...
    comment by bachmeier · 2017-08-14 · in Why I do not like Hugo
  47. …that is more flexible than Pandoc. You can see some discussion of supporting Kramdown in pandoc. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2711 Generally I think pandoc is the more mature tool, but I can see places where it might be a better…
    comment by bitexploder · 2017-03-10 · in Kramdown – A Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown
  48. …that this editor can do, but it's still in early beta stages, should anyone care to try it. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168 [2]: http://pandoc.org/ [3]: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ [4]:…
    comment by thangalin · 2017-02-04 · in Foolproof HTML
  49. …from markdown.pl to Pandoc and encountered some problems, one of which remains an open issue ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1841 ): https://twitter.com/arntzenius/status/745946799836381184 A telling comment on that github issue is…
    comment by rntz · 2016-12-20 · in Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code
  50. …at the University of California, Berkeley. It's written in Haskell. [0] http://pandoc.org/ [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
    comment by 0xmohit · 2016-07-23 · in Category Theory for the Sciences