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Pandoc: Swiss-Army Knife for Document Production

Pandoc (johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc) is a free and fantastically flexible tool for processing/converting/producing structured documents of all kinds. Not TEI, perhaps, but for most kinds of scholarly documents, this is the key to serious efficiency and fluidity. I’ve been seriously exploring the use of Pandoc in professional publishing workflows, but in the meantime, it’s completely taken over my writing, as well as my thinking about document- and bibliography management. Come to this session and I’ll share what I know. Maybe you’ll share too!

For starters, here’s some notes for a presentation I gave to publishers last month: tkbr.ccsp.sfu.ca:5001/Slides/On%20Pandoc