Pandoc

Pandoc is an extremely useful 'swiss army knife' for converting between different types of markup languages from the command line. For example, it readily builds PDFs with latex, and markdown - both of which are heavily used in academic research.

Department Managed Laptops

Admin User rights are required to install Pandoc. Unfortunately, only IT has those. Hence Pandoc can't be installed.

Note

We do not actively teach how to use Pandoc in the course - but we will utilize it in some lessons where we produce PDF, Word or HTML output from plain text files.

Pandoc Install for Mac

In a terminal window and type:

brew install pandoc

Now verify your install.

Pandoc Install for Linux

Open a terminal window and type

sudo apt install pandoc

to install pandoc from the command line. Now verify your install.

Pandoc Install for Windows

Open the terminal an run:

winget install -e --id JohnMacFarlane.Pandoc

Now verify your install.

Verify Pandoc Install

Verify your install by typing the following into a command line:

pandoc --version

The expected output starts with the following information:

pandoc 2.x

Ensure you have at least version 2.1.1 installed.