Once we have a document written in Markdown, we want to translate it into other file formats using Pandoc. First, though, we have to download Pandoc. Go to Pandoc’s installation guide at http://pandoc.org/installing.html and follow the instructions relevant for your platform.
Formatting a Markdown Document with Pandoc
For our first example
, we can take the small Markdown document shown here:
# This is a test document
Here is some text in the document.
* This is a list
* With two items
If we save this Markdown document in a file called input.md, we can translate it into an HTML file, ...
