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NAME
Pandoc - wrapper for the mighty Pandoc document converter
SYNOPSIS
use Pandoc; # check at first use
use Pandoc 1.12; # check at compile time
Pandoc->require(1.12); # check at run time
# execute pandoc
pandoc 'input.md', -o => 'output.html';
pandoc -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown', { in => \$html, out => \$md };
# alternative syntaxes
pandoc->run('input.md', -o => 'output.html');
pandoc [ -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown' ], in => \$html, out => \$md;
pandoc [ -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown' ], { in => \$html, out => \$md };
# check executable
pandoc or die "pandoc executable not found";
# check minimum version
pandoc->version > 1.12 or die "pandoc >= 1.12 required";
# access properties
say pandoc->bin." ".pandoc->version;
say "Default user data directory: ".pandoc->data_dir;
say "Compiled with: ".join(", ", keys %{ pandoc->libs });
say pandoc->libs->{'highlighting-kate'};
# create a new instance with default arguments
my $md2latex = Pandoc->new(qw(-f markdown -t latex --number-sections));
$md2latex->run({ in => \$markdown, out => \$latex });
# create a new instance with selected executable
my $pandoc = Pandoc->new('bin/pandoc');
my $pandoc = Pandoc->new('2.1'); # use ~/.pandoc/bin/pandoc-2.1 if available
# set default arguments on compile time
use Pandoc qw(-t latex);
use Pandoc qw(/usr/bin/pandoc --number-sections);
use Pandoc qw(1.16 --number-sections);
# utility method to convert from string
$latex = pandoc->convert( 'markdown' => 'latex', '*hello*' );
# utility methods to parse abstract syntax tree (requires Pandoc::Elements)
$doc = pandoc->parse( markdown => '*hello* **world!**' );
$doc = pandoc->file( 'example.md' );
$doc = pandoc->file; # read Markdown from STDIN
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a Perl wrapper for John MacFarlane's Pandoc <http://pandoc.org>
document converter.
INSTALLATION
This module requires the Perl programming language (>= version 5.14) as included in most
Unix operating systems by default. The recommended method to install Perl modules is
"cpanm" (see its install instructions
<https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus#INSTALLATION> if needed):
cpanm Pandoc
Installing instruction for Pandoc itself are given at Pandoc homepage
<http://pandoc.org/installing.html>. On Debian-based systems this module and script
pandoc-version can be used to install and update the pandoc executable with
Pandoc::Release:
pandoc-version install
Then add "~/.pandoc/bin" to your "PATH" or copy "~/.pandoc/bin/pandoc" to a location where
it can be executed.
USAGE
The utility function pandoc is exported, unless the module is imported with an empty list
("use Pandoc ();"). Importing this module with a version number or a more complex version
requirenment (e.g. "use Pandoc 1.13;" or "use Pandoc '>= 1.6, !=1.7") will check version
number of pandoc executable instead of version number of this module (see $Pandoc::VERSION
for the latter). Additional import arguments can be passed to set the executable location
and default arguments of the global Pandoc instance used by function pandoc.
FUNCTIONS
pandoc
If called without parameters, this function returns a global instance of class Pandoc to
execute methods, or "undef" if no pandoc executable was found. The location and/or name of
pandoc executable can be set with environment variable "PANDOC_PATH" (set to the string
"pandoc" by default).
pandoc( ... )
If called with parameters, this functions runs the pandoc executable configured at the
global instance of class Pandoc ("pandoc->bin"). Arguments (given as array or array
reference) are passed as pandoc command line arguments. Additional options (given as hash
or has reference) can control input, output, and error stream:
pandoc @arguments, \%options; # ok
pandoc \@arguments, %options; # ok
pandoc \@arguments, \%options; # ok
pandoc @arguments; # ok, if first of @arguments starts with '-'
pandoc %options; # ok, if %options is not empty
pandoc @arguments, %options; # not ok!
Returns 0 on success. On error returns the exit code of pandoc executable or "-1" if
execution failed. If option "throw" is set, a Pandoc::Error is thrown instead. The
following options are recognized:
in / out / err
These options correspond to arguments $stdin, $stdout, and $stderr of IPC::Run3, see
there for details.
binmode_stdin / binmode_stdout / binmode_stderr
These options correspond to the like-named options to IPC::Run3, see there for
details.
binmode
If defined any binmode_stdin/binmode_stdout/binmode_stderr option which is undefined
will be set to this value.
throw
Throw a Pandoc::Error instead returning the exit code on error. Disabled by default.
return_if_system_error
Set to negation of option "throw" by default.
For convenience the "pandoc" function (after checking the "binmode" option) checks the
contents of any scalar references passed to the in/out/err options with utf8::is_utf8()
and sets the binmode_stdin/binmode_stdout/binmode_stderr options to ":encoding(UTF-8)" if
the corresponding scalar is marked as UTF-8 and the respective option is undefined. Since
all pandoc executable input/output must be UTF-8 encoded this is convenient if you run
with use utf8, as you then don't need to set the binmode options at all (encode nor
decode) when passing input/output scalar references.
pandoc_data_dir( [ @subdirs ] [ $file ] )
Returns the default pandoc data directory which is directory ".pandoc" in the home
directory for Unix or "pandoc" directory in "%APPDATA%" for Windows. Optional arguments
can be given to refer to a specific subdirectory or file.
METHODS
new( [ $executable | $version ] [, @arguments ] )
Create a new instance of class Pandoc or throw an exception if no pandoc executable was
found. The first argument, if given and not starting with "-", can be used to set the
pandoc executable ("pandoc" by default). If a version is specified the executable is also
searched in "~/.pandoc/bin", e.g. "~/.pandoc/bin/pandoc-2.0" for version 2.0. Additional
arguments are passed to the executable on each run.
Repeated use of this constructor with same arguments is not recommended because "pandoc
--version" is called for every new instance.
run( ... )
Execute the pandoc executable with default arguments and optional additional arguments and
options. See function pandoc for usage.
convert( $from => $to, $input [, @arguments ] )
Convert a string in format $from to format $to. Additional pandoc options such as "-N" and
"--standalone" can be passed. The result is returned in same utf8 mode
("utf8::is_unicode") as the input. To convert from file to string use method
"pandoc"/"run" like this and set input/output format via standard pandoc arguments "-f"
and "-t":
pandoc->run( $filename, @arguments, { out => \$string } );
parse( $from => $input [, @arguments ] )
Parse a string in format $from to a Pandoc::Document object. Additional pandoc options
such as "-N" and "--normalize" can be passed. This method requires at least pandoc version
1.12.1 and the Perl module Pandoc::Elements.
The reverse action is possible with method "to_pandoc" of Pandoc::Document. Additional
shortcut methods such as "to_html" are available:
$html = pandoc->parse( 'markdown' => '# A *section*' )->to_html;
Method "convert" should be preferred for simple conversions unless you want to modify or
inspect the parsed document in between.
file( [ $filename [, @arguments ] ] )
Parse from a file (or STDIN) to a Pandoc::Document object. Additional pandoc options can
be passed, for instance use HTML input format ("@arguments = qw(-f html)") instead of
default markdown. This method requires at least pandoc version 1.12.1 and the Perl module
Pandoc::Elements.
require( $version_requirement )
Return the Pandoc instance if its version number fulfills a given version requirement.
Throw an error otherwise. Can also be called as constructor: "Pandoc->require(...)" is
equivalent to "pandoc->require" but throws a more meaningful error message if no pandoc
executable was found.
version( [ $version_requirement ] )
Return the pandoc version as Pandoc::Version object. If a version requirement is given,
the method returns undef if the pandoc version does not fulfill this requirement. To
check whether pandoc is available with a given minimal version use one of:
Pandoc->require( $minimum_version) # true or die
pandoc and pandoc->version( $minimum_version ) # true or false
bin( [ $executable ] )
Return or set the pandoc executable. Setting an new executable also updates version and
data_dir by calling "pandoc --version".
symlink( [ $name ] [ verbose => 0|1 ] )
Create a symlink with given name to the executable and change executable to the symlink
location afterwards. An existing symlink is replaced. If $name is an existing directory,
the symlink will be named "pandoc" in there. This makes most sense if the directory is
listed in environment variable $PATH. If the name is omitted or an empty string, symlink
is created in subdirectory "bin" of pandoc data directory.
arguments( [ @arguments | \@arguments )
Return or set a list of default arguments.
data_dir( [ @subdirs ] [ $file ] )
Return the stated default data directory, introduced with Pandoc 1.11. Use function
"pandoc_data_dir" alternatively to get the expected directory without calling Pandoc
executable.
input_formats
Return a list of supported input formats.
output_formats
Return a list of supported output formats.
highlight_languages
Return a list of programming languages which syntax highlighting is supported for (via
Haskell library highlighting-kate).
extensions( [ $format ] )
Return a hash of extensions mapped to whether they are enabled by default. This method is
only available since Pandoc 1.18 and the optional format argument since Pandoc 2.0.6.
libs
Return a hash mapping the names of Haskell libraries compiled into the pandoc executable
to Pandoc::Version objects.
SEE ALSO
This package includes Pandoc::Version to compare Pandoc version numbers, Pandoc::Release
to get Pandoc releases from GitHub, and App::Prove::Plugin::andoc to run tests with
selected Pandoc executables.
See Pandoc::Elements for a Perl interface to the abstract syntax tree of Pandoc documents
for more elaborate document processing.
See Pod::Pandoc to parse Plain Old Documentation format (perlpod) for processing with
Pandoc.
See Pandoc wrappers and interfaces <https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-wrappers-
and-interfaces> in the Pandoc GitHub Wiki for a list of wrappers in other programming
languages.
Other Pandoc related but outdated modules at CPAN include Orze::Sources::Pandoc and
App::PDoc.
AUTHOR
Jakob Voss
CONTRIBUTORS
Benct Philip Jonsson
LICENSE
European Union Public Licence v. 1.2 (EUPL-1.2)