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 document converter. 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 are passed as command line arguments and options control input, output, and error stream as described below. Returns 0 on success. Otherwise returns the the exit code of pandoc executable or -1 if execution failed. Arguments and options can be passed as plain array/hash or as (possibly empty) reference in the following ways: 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! 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. return_if_system_error Set to true by default to return the exit code of pandoc executable. 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. 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 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 GNU General Public License, Version 2