Pandoc Notes

Personal notes about how to use Pandoc. Though, honestly, their website (https://pandoc.org/) is pretty good and you should just go there.

Markdown to HTML

pandoc input.md -f markdown -t html --table-of-contents -s -o output.html

MathML

See also /mathml notes.

echo '$\lim_{n\to\infty}n$' | pandoc --mathml

Outputs:

<p><math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mo>lim</mo><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msub><mi>n</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\lim_{n\to\infty}n</annotation></semantics></math></p>

Which looks like: limn→∞n\lim_{n\to\infty}n

LaTeX to (X)HTML

Use “-s” for standalone documents, without it you get an HTML fragment. 

pandoc -s --mathml -o some-output.xhtml pandocmacros.tex  some-section-to-convert.tex

Including macros

Sometimes in LaTeX you use macros so you don’t have to type as much math formatting. Maybe you have some macros like: 

% Math stuff
\newcommand{\ud}{\,\mathrm{d}}
\newcommand{\Reals}{\mathbb{R}}
\newcommand{\Normal}{\mathsf{Normal}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Utility}{U}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Value}{V}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Var}{Var}

Say you have these macros in a file called “pandocmacros.tex”. You can include them with: 

pandoc -s --mathml -o some-output.xhtml pandocmacros.tex  some-section-to-convert.tex