pandoc

MarkDoc relies on Pandoc software for converting the Markdown document to several formats. However, many of the functionalities of this software are not included in MarkDoc, simply because there is no obvious use for them for the majority of the users. However, since the software is needed, the pandoc command was added to allow the users use Pandoc interactively within Stata. The only advantage of this command is that it simplifies calling Pandoc and eliminates the need of memorizing Pandoc path. See Pandoc Examples to get an idea of what you can do with this command.

There are plenty of occasions that the pandoc command can be very helpful. For example, imagine you have used a user-written command to export a LaTeX or HTML table but you wish to include a Markdown table in your document. You can use the pandoc command to automatically convert the file

Syntax

The syntax of the command is as follows:

pandoc command

Examples

executing Pandoc command

. pandoc filename -o filename

adding more Pandoc arguments

. pandoc -s -S filename -o filename

Remarks

Users can permanently define the path to Pandoc software using the weave setup command if they have not installed Pandoc automatically, using the install option.