files:

$ ls
a.md
b.md
c.md
d.md
e.md

Command: pandoc file.md -f markdown file.pdf How would I parallely process two pandoc instances simulatneously? Possibly with xargs or parallel. It would work like Iteration/ cmd 1 / cmd 2 1 / pandoc a.md -f markdown a.pdf / pandoc b.md -f markdown b.pdf 2 / pandoc c.md -f markdown c.pdf / pandoc d.md -f markdown d.pdf 3 / pandoc e.md -f markdown e.pdf / pandoc f.md -f markdown f.pdf 4 / pandoc g.md -f markdown g.pdf / pandoc h.md -f markdown h.pdf The files are randomly named.

epubcat book.epub 1 3 # outputs plain text of pages 1 through 3 I don’t know if epubs have the concept of “pages.” If not, perhaps we can say each 400 chars are a page? A general solution that works for other ebook formats is better (mobi, azw3, etc). My own thoughts are currently on first converting the book to text via ebook-convert or pandoc and then extracting the needed amount, but this seems awfully inefficient as I intend to only get a little of the beginning of the content. You can download an example file that can be used for testing [here](http://82.102.11.148:8080//tmp/Time%20to%20Put%20Your%20Galleons%20Where%20Your%20Mouth%20Is%20-%20Tsume%20Yuki.epub) .

It is currently possible to insert a PDF as an image in markdown files through pandoc by doing this:

# Hello World
![My PDF file inserted](my-pdf.pdf)

Then you convert that markdown file with pandoc:

~$ pandoc -s -f markdown-implicit_figures my-document.md -o my-document.pdf

And it works! **But pandoc only inserts the first page** of my-pdf.pdf. Is it possible to set which page to insert, or better, which pages range? Thanks by advance.

In this thread I was suggested to do an action with lynx or pandoc. To my understanding, both programs can output an *all backend* and *solely or primarily textual* webpage, in console, pretty much as this webpage would be rendered on a web browser. I googled "lynx pandoc diff" (without quote marks) but didn't find a succinct explanation about the difference between the two programs. What is the difference between lynx and pandoc? ## Update I should have read a bit, an intro at least, about these utilities in man before publishing this question but due to not doing so and losing time in comments together with another user I do it symbolically to punish myself, better late than never as the principle goes. I have found after executing man pandoc: **pandoc - general markup converter** > Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read Markdown, CommonMark, PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub-Flavored Markdown, MultiMark‐ down, and (subsets of) Textile, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org mode, DocBook, txt2tags, EPUB, ODT and Word docx; and it can write plain text. I have found after executing man lynx: **lynx - a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web** > Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on Windows 95/NT/XP/7/8 or any POSIX platform, or any other “curses-oriented” display). It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers. Current versions of Lynx run on Unix, VMS, Windows 95/NT/XP/7/8, DOS DJGPP and OS/2. > Lynx can be used to access information on the World Wide Web, or to build information systems intended primarily for local access. For example, Lynx has been used to build several Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS). In addition, Lynx can be used to build systems isolated within a single LAN. I am anyway happy with publishing this question because if someone not familiar with the man culture or websites describing the utilities and stuck and feel overwhelmed, this post might help this person.

So I know you can use pagesize and geometry to set the page size of the PDFs Pandoc makes to presets (like a5, b5, etc), but is there a way to set a precise pair of dimensions? I'm going to be using the PDF with Amazon Self-Publishing (paperback) and I need the pages to be exactly 5x8in, as that's the closest setting KDP has to what I want. Thank you!

I have a script which reads an VCS log, converts that to latex, and then uses awk to replace keyword @COMMITS@ in a template with the text:

untagged=$(get-commit-messages "$server" "$rev")
IFS=$'\n' untagged=( $untagged )  # Tokenize based on newlines
for commit in "${untagged[@]}"; do
  tex+="\\\nui{"                  # Wrap each commit in a custom command
  tex+=$(echo "$commit" | pandoc -t latex --wrap=none)
  tex+="}
"
done

awk -v r="$tex" '{gsub(/@COMMITS@/,r)}1' template

Since commit messages are really just text, I use pandoc -t latex to ensure everything is escaped properly for the latex parser. My problem is that the awk parser un-escapes these. If I find a _ in a commit message, pandoc will replace that with \_, but then awk will convert it back and give a warning:

awk: warning: escape sequence \_' treated as plain _'

That will cause the latex parser to fail. Is there a way for me to prevent awk from un-escaping stuff? If not I'll look for a non-awk solution for text-replacement.

Out of GUI-based software like ReText or Formiko, and using just a _command-line tool_ like pandoc, is it possible to open markdown files (MIME type association) as an HTML file in a web browser, without any browser-addon too? Notice that the original markdown file may include links to images or any kind of resources. Therefore, this process should be on-fly (stdout?), without saving the output HTML file to somewhere else like /tmp/ directory. And how can such a command be included in a .desktop file?

I'm trying to generate an ePub file with abbreviations. Here's an example: input.md:

---
title: Test
language: en
---

# Test

HTML is maintained by W3C.

and abbr.md:

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]:  World Wide Web Consortium

and get-epub.sh:

#!/bin/bash
pandoc -f markdown+abbreviations -t epub\
--abbreviations="abbr.md"\
"input.md" -o "output.epub";

I'm expecting to see something like this in the output.epub file:

HTML is maintained by W3C.

while the actual output is:

HTML is maintained by W3C.

Did I miss something here?

i'm using pandoc (2.2.1) to convert an html page to pdf (or also markdown, org, plain text, etc. whatever works really). this is the page: https://www.exclassics.com/pamphlets/pamph004.htm pandoc returns the best output when i just use the

-s

flag and the default pdf engine (ie via latex rather than direct). but it doesn't preserve the centered text at the beginning of the pamphlet. is is it possible to preserve this formatting? or workaround of some kind? anything better than converting to latex, manually centering it all, then converting again? i'm new to pandoc so sorry if this is obvious. i searched and found nothing.

I'm about to get involved in some collaborative prose writing with a friend of mine via email. As a regular person, he will of course be using MS Word document formats; as a massive nerd, I prefer to use markdown when writing on a computer. What I need is the exact opposite of [this question about converting rich text copied from a webpage to markdown](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/78395/34494) . My naive worst-case workflow would be: 1. Write up the document in markdown 2. Use pandoc -S file.mkd -o temp.html 3. Open up temp.html in a web browser 4. Copy & paste from the page to the open document in libreoffice I am certain that this can be optimised. (Google Docs is not an option in this case). Even though I've answered the main question, I still feel that this could be optimised further. If there is any way to concatenate .doc files (which I will be receiving and which pandoc can write to), perhaps with the libreoffice command-line interface, then I suppose it would be possible to construct an overly-complicated one-liner and avoid having to leave the terminal at all. If anyone finds a way to do that, I will happily accept that answer over my own.

Ultimately the final goal is to convert HTML to PDF. I saw this solution: https://github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-wkhtmltopdf but the above solution seems to require headless chrome in order to run. So instead of that, I am going to try to use pandoc which will in turn use miktex to generate TeX from HTML? But when I install miktex, I get: $ sudo apt-get install miktex Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: miktex : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2) but it is not installable Depends: libhunspell-1.4-0 but it is not installable Depends: libicu57 (>= 57.1-1~) but it is not installable Depends: libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1) but it is not installable Depends: libmpfr4 (>= 3.1.3) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. does anyone know how to solve that dependency problem?