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Introducing Markdown and Pandoc

Using Markup Language and Document Converter

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Mailund

    1. Aarhus N, Denmark

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  • The first book that covers Pandoc to a significant degree along with Markdown

  • Includes practical examples on how to document and write code blocks and math

  • Author has practical experience using these tools in industry and academia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Beginner’s Guide to Markdown and Pandoc

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 1-3

  3. Why Use Markdown and Pandoc

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 5-12

  4. Writing Markdown

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 13-22

  5. Pandoc Markdown Extensions

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 23-34

  6. Translating Documents

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 35-45

  7. Math and Computer Programming Languages

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 47-55

  8. Cross-referencing

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 57-66

  9. Metadata

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 67-71

  10. Using Templates

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 73-89

  11. Preprocessing

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 91-98

  12. Filters

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 99-131

  13. Conclusions

    • Thomas Mailund
    Pages 133-133

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 135-139
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About this book

Discover how to write manuscripts in Markdown and translate them with Pandoc into different output formats. You’ll use Markdown to annotate text formatting information with a strong focus on semantic information: you can annotate your text with information about where chapters and sections start, but not how chapter and heading captions should be formatted. As a result, you’ll decouple the structure of a text from how it is visualized and make it easier for you to produce different kinds of output. The same text can easily be formatted as HTML, PDF, or Word documents, with various visual styles, by tools that understand the markup annotations. 


Finally, you’ll learn to use Pandoc, a tool for translating between different markup languages, such as LaTeX, HTML, and Markdown. This book will not describe all the functionality that Pandoc provides, but will teach you how to translate Markdown documents, how to customize your documents using templates, and how to extend Pandoc’s functionality using filters. If that is something you are interested in, Introducing Markdown and Pandoc will get you started. 


With this set of skills you’ll be able to write more efficiently without worrying about needless formatting and other distractions.


What You Will Learn
  • Why and how to use Markdown and Pandoc
  • Write Markdown
  • Use extensions available in Pandoc and Markdown
  • Write math and code blocks
  • Use templates and produce documents



Who This Book Is For


Programmers and problem solvers looking for technical documentation solutions.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Aarhus N, Denmark

    Thomas Mailund

About the author

Thomas Mailund is an associate professor in bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has a background in math and computer science, including experience programming and teaching in the C and R programming languages.  For the last decade, his main focus has been on genetics and evolutionary studies, particularly comparative genomics, speciation, and gene flow between emerging species.


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