Pandoc has released version 3.0. The popular open source tool converts documents and gets a number of innovations for practically all supported formats. Above all, graphic representations have been revised.
The revised support for complex images is of particular interest to Pandoc users. For this purpose, Pandoc will contain a dedicated block constructor for mappings in the future. The changelog lists the respective changes that the extended image support entails in detail.
Lua component gets its own package
Also, the developers have moved Pandoc’s Lua components into a separate package independent from the main program, the pandoc-lua-engine called. With the Lua programming language, users can independently build extensions for Pandoc and thus also support file formats that the converter does not natively support.
with chunckedhtml Pandoc also gets a new output format. It creates a zip archive containing several individual HTML documents. The complete list of all changes for the new major version 3.0 contains the lush changelog.
Pandoc appears as open source software and is particularly popular in research. The project, which is under GPL, was initiated in 2006 by John MacFarlane. Pandoc is best known for its advanced Markdown features. The tool is a markup converter and can handle docx, html, latex and pdf files, among other things both as an input and as an output. It is available for download on GitHub for Linux, Windows and macOS.
(jvo)
