Introducing Markdown and Pandoc: Using Markup Language and Document Converter

© Thomas Mailund 2019

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6. Math and Computer Programming Languages

Thomas Mailund¹ 

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Aarhus N, Denmark

 

You might not be in the habit of writing technical or scientific text, but if you are, then Pandoc supports both mathematics and computer programming code formatting.

Writing Math

Pandoc has some excellent support for writing math as long as your output file format supports it. Word files have built-in support for math, and Pandoc will use this if the output file is a Word document. With PDF, Pandoc uses LaTeX as an intermediate format, and LaTeX is spectacularly perfect for math. With HTML and EPUB, you have some math support depending on the version and libraries ...